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OLIVER LORAINE WROUGHTON. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE 



BY 



OLIVER LORAINE WROUGHTON 
KANSAS CITY^ MO. 



Frankun Hudson Pubushing Co., 
1918. 






BOOKS PUBLISHED 
BY 

OLIVER L. WROUGHTON. 

Spiritual Science. 
Sales Science. 
Business Ethics. 
Business Building. 
Business Science. 
Credit Si^ience. 



DEC 30!Si8 



Copyright, 1918, 
By OLIVER LORAINE WROUGHTON. 



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SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 5 

The man who^ sees this book and does not 
read it may lose his chance for eternal life in 
all its fulness. The man who reads this hook 
will know the truth. If he fails to serve God, 
keep His commandments, read the Holy Bible 
with faith, and build true manhood with under- 
standing, he is lost. 

The purpose of copyrighting this book is to 
prevent others from taking from or adding to it. 
Any one will be permitted to quote in part, 
with this exptafning prefix, *' Spiritual Science 
teaches that,'- 'quoting. 

It is not the purpose of this book to attempt 
to start a new religion, because the principles 
herein taught apply to all mankind and all re- 
ligion; and it is required of every man that he 
fulfill his mission in this life and trust his 
Creator for what reward he may receive in 
the next. 

The emblem symbolizing the teachings of 
Spiritual Science — Sincere Service or Sun- 
Shine — may be used by any one who desires 
to live these teachings. 



6 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

DECLARATIONS. 

1. God is Life, Love, Light, and Law. 

2. Nature is Divine reflection. 

3. Man is spiritual. 

4. Christ exempUfied man's mission. 

5. Faith extends spiritual understanding. 

6. Spiritual understanding is man's atone- 
ment. 

7. Each soul must demonstrate truth. 

8. Truth releases God's gifts to man. 

9. Service is truth's gospel. 

10. Perfect understanding accepts God. 



SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 



CONTENTS. 

Page 

S. S. Symbol ii 

Chapters 

1. The Beginning. 23 

2. Physical Man 43 

3. Mkntal Man 65 

4. Spiritual Man 97 

5. Divinity 115 

6. Regeneration 125 

7. Perfection 143 

8. Communion 153 

9. Revelation 197 

10. Kabala (Understanding) . . 233 



8 SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 

Spiritually, S S means Spiritual Science. 
Psychically, S S means Silent Supply. 
Mentally, S S means Sanctum Sanctorum. 
Physically, S S means Scientific Structure. 
Commercially, S S means Sincere Service. 
Socially, S S means Sun-Shine. 
Symbolically, S S means Soul-Sight. 
Religiously, S S means Sacred Searchlight. 
Practically, S S means Scientific Saviour. 
Finally, S S means Spiritual Salvation. 



SPIRITUAL SCIKNCB. 

SPIRITUAL SCIENCE SUN-SHINE 
SYMBOL. 




Sun-Shine — Where light appears evil dis- 
appears. Things done in the light will bear 
inspection. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. ii 

THE EMBI.EM. 

God is the foundation of all things 
Without God nothing can be; with God all 
things are possible. The letter G at the 
point of the outer heart in the emblem is to 
indicate that God is the giver of all that we 
have, all that we see, and all that we can 
hope to receive. 

He who does not make the thought of 
God the most potent factor in his life has 
failed at the beginning. To fail in life is 
death. 

To understand and comprehend the mag- 
nitude of the fundamental law declared by 
him who first said, ''The I^ord is my shep- 
herd, I shall not want,'' is the doorway to 
eternal life. God must be as much to us 
to-day as He is to be to-morrow or here- 
after. Let us have no other God before 
Him. He is sufficient for all things. 

S. S.— The two S 's at the top of the outer 
heart are to indicate that God is Spirit and 
Science; that God Supports and Sustains 
those who serve Him. 



12 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

Also, these letters signify the word Sun- 
Shine; so we may ever remember that where 
light appears darkness disappears and is no 
more. Where truth is evil cannot be. That 
which we do in the light will bear inspection. 
Let us keep our face ever toward the light, 
so that our shadow will not fall before us and 
impede our progress. 

Understanding God's power to Support 
and Sustain us, we are able to overcome Sin 
and Sickness, and live within the law of 
Service and Sacrifice. 

These letters also indicate the number of 
books in the Holy Bible — sixty-six. When 
we apply the Bible to ourselves, we have 
sixty -seven — Self -Sacrifice. Ten is the only 
perfect number. When we add our perfec- 
tion to the Bible, we have seventy-six — 
Service and Sacrifice ; and when we combine 
the Bible with understanding — Service and 
Self-Sacrifice — we have seventy-seven, or 
Soul-Satisfaction, Sun-Shine and a full un- 
derstanding of God's power to Support and 
Sustain us. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 13 

I/Ct us Sincerely Serve Him. 

ThiE Doubi^K Circle. — The two circles 
on the outer margin of the emblem are to 
remind us that God is not only the founda- 
tion of all things, but is both outside and in- 
side of all things. That which is outside of 
God does not exist ; that which does not have 
God within it is an illusion, and has no per- 
manent existence. God is both principle 
and person. 

A. O. Z.— The A. O. Z. is to remind us 
that God is Alpha, the beginning, Omega, 
the ending, and Zenith, the highest of all 
things; that God not only creates, supports, 
and sustains all things, but illuminates all 
things with Divine grace. It is only by His 
grace that we are permitted the privileges 
of Consciousness, Intelligence, Action, Char- 
ity, and Silence. These faculties reflect 
themselves through our five senses. 

Consciousness gives us the sense of exist- 
ence — the realization that we live and act 
and have our being, with the power to think 
and the privilege to worship our Creator. 



14 SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 

Intelligence gives us individuality, and is 
that faculty which gives us perception and 
conception. Intelligence is the first blossom 
of consciousness, and is that force and power 
which enables us to direct our minds toward 
a certain object. Intelligence teaches us 
that there is a Creator of the universe, Who 
recognizes each individual and grants each 
the privilege to enjoy individuality. 

Action is that faculty which enables us 
to move with direction and gives us person- 
ality. Action teaches us that thoughts are 
tangible things, and empowers us with self- 
reliance, self-control, motion, force, and en- 
durance. 

Charity is the sense of comparison, and it 
enables us to recognize those things which 
exist outside of ourselves. Charity is the 
foundation of the law of love. Through 
charity we acquire judgment and the sense 
of distance, height, weight, size, time, color, 
and circumference. Through charity we are 
enabled to turn from darkness unto light, 
and recognize the law of service. *' Faith, 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 15 

Hope, and Charity, hut the greatest of these is 
Charity.'' 

Silence is the sense of unselfishness. Un- 
selfishness is the stepping-stone to unfold- 
ment, the doorway of service, the keystone 
to understanding, and the secret of wisdom. 
When we are able to silence ourselves and 
our selfish desires, then we will be able to 
serve others, and when we begin to serve 
others, we become a known quantity for a 
worthy cause. 

The) Book. — The Book is to remind us of 
God's Holy Word, in which He has given us 
the law of Life (the principle of the Father), 
the law of Love (the principle of the Son), 
the law of Light (the principle of the Holy 
Ghost), and the Law (His message to man 
through the Saviour of the world). The 
Book is placed between the letter G and the 
letter Z; G being the emblem of God and Z 
the emblem of man. The Book and that 
which it contains is the connecting link be- 
tween man and God. 

Z, — Z is to remind us not only that God 



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is the greatest of all things, but that man is 
God's greatest work and the zenith of His cre- 
ation. The letter Z, being indicated by two 
parallel lines joined together by a slanting 
line, is emblematic of man, in that the lower 
line is representative of the Physical Man, the 
upper Hne is representative of the Spiritual 
Man, and these two are joined together by a 
slanting line, which is representative of the 
Mental Man, 

The great purpose of man in the world is 
to fulfill his mission, and gradually travel 
the inclme path toward Spirituality, that he 
may fulfill his purpose and become worthy 
to be continued as the greatest of God's 
creation. 

The Hearts. — The outer Heart is to in- 
dicate the man as you see him in his every- 
day life. This outer man must be purified 
by writing the law in the heart of his daily 
life. The law can be found in the Book. 
When a man purifies his daily life by the law 
written within the Book, he will then dis- 
cover his true self, the inner man, which is 



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indicated by the heart within the Book. 
The only way to discover the inner man and 
reveal him to one's self is through an under- 
standing of the Book. 

The; Cross. — The Cross is to indicate 
that the true road to Soul Satisfaction is by 
carrying the burdens of life that come within 
our ability, thus doing our work and perform- 
ing our mission. Soul Satisfaction does not 
come to any individual until he has per- 
formed the service which he has been sent 
here to do. 

The; Torch.— The Torch is to indicate 
that he who serves must work with under- 
standing, guided by the torchlight of truth. 
He who works without understanding does 
not serve. He who serves with understand- 
ing, knowing his purpose and his mission, 
recognizing truth as it lights up his path of 
duty, will journey with certainty and attain 
perfection. 

The; Crown. — The Crown is the symbol 
of command. We cannot command that 
which we have not attained. We cannot 



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command eternal life until we have per- 
formed our mission. To him that overcometh 
shall be given the Crown of Victory. 

SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE TENETS. 

1 . There is but one God, the Creator of 
the Universe, reflecting Life, Love, Light, and 
Law. 

2. Nature is constant testimony of 
God's reflection of the Divine Principle. 

3. Man, created in the image of God, is 
a spiritual being, manifesting the Divine. 

4. Christ, manifesting and demonstrat- 
ing the eternal laws of life, exemplified the 
mission of mankind. 

5. Mankind, through faith in Christ and 
understanding the Bible, the foundation of 
truth, may extend spiritual consciousness, 
demonstrate the eternal laws of life, and 
fulfill his mission to God. 

6. Cultivating spiritual understanding 
to refiect, manifest, and demonstrate the 
eternal Divine Principle is the atonement for 



SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 19 

all mankind in the physical, astral, or spir- 
itual body. 

7. Bach indivi final, following the ex- 
ample of Christ, with faith and understand- 
ing, manifesting the Divine Principle, must 
make his own atonement, demonstrating 
truth. 

8. Facing God, and living truth and the 
law of giving, purifies the Physical Man, re- 
generates and educates the Mental Man, and 
illuminates the Spiritual Man with the gifts 
of Inspiration, Prophecy, Spiritual Commun- 
ion, Healing, and the Working of Miracles, 
into an understanding of God's Divine Plan 
for the perfection of mankind as a spiritual 
being, manifesting the Divine. 

9. Giving knowledge to our fellow-men, 
and exemplifying all that is within ourselves 
for the glory of God and His Divine Plan for 
the purification and regeneration of man, is 
our service to mankind and thus to God, that 
all may become perfect in Him, spiritually 
reflecting and manifesting the Divine Prin- 
ciples of truth and love among men, fulfilling 
the laws of eternal life. 



20 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

lo. To the perfect man, through the gifts 
of God and faith in Jesus Christ, understand- 
in g the laws of truth and God's Word, dem- 
onstrating the laws of love and service for 
the upbuilding of mankind, for the glory of 
God, is revealed the testimony of the Divine 
Principle, and the manifestation of man a 
spiritual being, and the perfect recognition 
of God as the Creator of the Universe, re- 
flecting Divine Life, Love, Light, and Law. 



SPIRlTUAIy SCIENCK. 21 



PREFACE. 

The purpose of the author in writing this 
hook is to give to the world spiritual truth 
from beyond the veil. Every man loves his 
Creator^ and within him has the desire for 
eternal life. Every man has a right to know 
the truth. 

The author has studied many years and 
received many revelations which he knows to 
he truth y in harmony with the eternal law of 
Infinite Intelligence i The purpose of this 
hook is to teach truth. We can harmonize all 
things with truth. 

May you read with profit, study with un- 
derstanding, and comprehend with a new con- 
sciousness the real purpose of life. May the 
blessings of eternity go with you forever. 

Remember that God is God, and mankind 
His children. 

OUVER LORAINE) WrOUGHTON. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 23 



Chapter I. 



THE BEGINNING. 

There is but one God, the Creator of the 
Universe J reflecting Life, Love, Light, and Lavu, 

The beginning is to find ourselves; then 
we can know that God is God, and mankind 
His children. 

There are many theories regarding man's 
advent into this world, but laying this ques- 
tion aside for the present, we are sure we 
live, with power to think, move, and act, and 
we must learn how to think and how to live 
before we can know how and why we came 
and where we are to go. 

Many teachers, when discussing life's 
problems, commence with the premise that 
somewhere there is an Intelligence who cre- 
ated all things. 

We will commence our study of the prob- 
lems of life at the point which we now occu- 



24 SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 

py, and build out until we view the entire 
universe. 

I ask you to go with me slowly, earnestly, 
and carefully, knowing that in your soul you 
desire to know the truth, and assuring you 
that when you know the truth, it will make 
you free. But remember that freedom car- 
ries with it the responsibility of knowledge. 

The first question that most people de- 
sire answered was asked by Job: '7/ a man 
die, shall he live again?'* Many who think 
they have solved this question cease to care 
whether there is a God or not, or proceed to 
create a God to suit their preconceived ideas 
of a future life, and govern their conduct by 
a dogma which this self-created god has 
given them. This attitude reflects the com- 
mon error of human mind, which is self- 
ishness. 

Religion has always been founded on the 
belief of eternal life; but that is not enough — 
we may know. It is our purpose to teach 
men how to know themselves, and that life 
is eternal. When we know that life is eter- 



SPIRITUAL SCIKNCB. 25 

nal, our next step is to learn how to gain that 
life in all its fulness. Our chief purpose in 
this world is to learn to live, and thus gain 
eternal life. We must sacrifice everything 
that would tend to deny us a sufficient knowl- 
edge of ourselves and our powers, which ena- 
bles us to think and work, so as to entitle us 
to be numbered among those who have 
earned eternal life. Gathering this knowl- 
edge is life's work. We must not be radical 
nor egotistic, but constantly and earnestly 
seek the truth. 

We cannot accomplish enough in this 
plane of consciousness to teach us all truth, 
for that is a work of eternity; but we must 
attain sufficient knowledge while in the flesh 
to be prepared for that life which comes 
after physical death. We must have a life- 
purpose and a purpose in life. We must 
learn the law of sacrifice; we must learn the 
law of service; we must be born again; we 
must become children of truth; we must 
learn to keep the commandments of truth; 
we must bring ourselves into the conscious- 



26 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

ness of understanding to know the law of 
living, and abide it. True living consists in 
knowing God's law and keeping His com- 
mandments. We cannot reach the higher 
knowledge of Spiritual Science unless we 
know the law and live it. 

The most perfect example of all who have 
overcome is the Christ. His life's purpose 
was to teach men the way. He was a 
prophet, expected by those who had gained 
the knowledge of Spiritual Science. He 
lived in the flesh just as we live in the flesh — 
surrounded by physical law — and the first 
indication we have of His life's purpose was 
when He said, ''Wist ye not that I must be 
about my Father's business f' He realized at 
the early age of twelve years that there is 
but one purpose in life, and that is to render 
service to our fellow-men. We must make 
life a reality now to make it a reality here- 
after. Duty cannot be found in the yester- 
day nor the to-morrow. We must recognize 
the law which makes men great in proportion 
to the good they do. This is the law of com- 
pensation. Compensation is life. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 27 

There are only two conditions of the 
human mind. The first is truth. Truth is 
the consciousness of reality. The second is 
error. Error is a misconception of truth. 

As we journey through life, each act and 
deed must conform with the law of truth;, 
otherwise we fail. We must be able to dis- 
cern truth or to point out error. What we 
think does not change truth, what we are 
does not change truth; what we believe does 
not change truth. Experience is a severe 
teacher. It comes through sacrifice and 
service. Through the law of sacrifice we 
learn to discern truth. Through the law of 
service we learn to discard error. If we build 
our lives upon truth, we will unfold. If we 
set our hearts upon truth, we will grow. 
Blind belief will not sustain us. Right belief 
is the highway to reality. Each individual 
must work out his own salvation by hving 
the laws of truth, with faith and understand- 
ing. Knowledge comes by removing the veil 
between our understanding and the true un- 
derstanding — removing the dross from the 
gold — uncovering truth. 



28 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

This process of development must har- 
monize with the scientific laws of life; there 
is no other way. We must begin where we 
find ourselves. We must use the knowledge 
we have to gather knowledge. Infinite In- 
telhgence will not give us more than we 
can use, and if we fail to properly use what 
we have, it will be taken away. 

He who fails to live up to his intelligence 
is not true to himself, and will be cast out of 
his own. He is selling his birthright for a 
mess of pottage. It is our privilege to get 
full value out of ourselves. If we fail to do 
this, Truth, Knowledge, Wisdom, Sincerity, 
Purity, and Power will escape us, and our 
real selves will be sacrificed. This is idola- 
try. Idolatry is to give up the genuine for 
the counterfeit. 

We are living men, possessing minds and 
souls, and have the opportunity to know the 
truth and its laws. To waste our strength 
now, attempting to solve the source of life 
while we are yet bound in the flesh under 
physical law, impedes our progress and con- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCK. 29 

sumes the power within us that is able to 
help us build perfection; after which there 
will be no problems to solve. 

In the beginning, faith must be our sup- 
port and comfort. Imperfection can not 
explain perfection. Error can not explain 
truth. When truth is established, perfec- 
tion is attained, and error is not found in its 
consciousness. That which contains error 
is not truth. Truth can not be destroyed. 
Error does not exist outside of our idea. We 
must begin to build with the knowledge we 
now possess. We know — and it is a part of 
our consciousness to know — that we live, 
think, act, and have our being. To be, or not 
to be — to live, or not to live, is then the 
problem. If we build on truth, we discover 
our real selves ; if we build on error, the real 
self becomes lost in its confusion. 

For us the beginning is now. We must 
patiently await our awakening through faith, 
thought, and right living.- If we are in er- 
ror, we must awaken the consciousness of 
truth; if we are in truth, we are awakened, 



30 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

and have reached the consciousness to know 
our source, our purpose, and its fulfillment. 
We have that peace which comes from within. 
There are four important laws which 
must be the foundation of all the progress 
we make from now throughout eternity : 

I St. Ourselves — the law of Preserva- 
tion. 
2d. Our fellow-men — the law of Char- 
ity. 
3d. Our duties — the law of Service. 
4th. Our reward — the law of Compen- 
sation. 
We must know ourselves. We must 
learn to think. We must learn that thoughts 
become realities. We must learn that knowl- 
edge is power. We must learn to properly 
direct our thoughts and power when at- 
tained. Some men labor more to accomplish 
nothing than others to build a city. Let us 
consider the things within that are powerful. 
We are either positive or negative. We are 
either intelHgent or dull. We are either 
clean or sloven. We are either energetic 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 31 

or lazy. We are either reliable or unrelia- 
ble. We are either willful or weak. We are 
either selfish or unselfish. We are either 
cautious or imprudent. We are either strong 
or weak. We are either healthy or sick. We 
are either thoughtful or ignorant. We are 
either wise or foolish. We kre either sincere 
or egotistic. We are either religious or ir- 
reverent. We are either spiritual or material. 

The positive is the true condition; the 
negative, error. All life is positive. To be 
positive, we must understand. We must not 
be eccentric; but it should be the hope of 
every man to become balanced in all. To 
him who overcomes shall be given life everlast- 
ing. To attain self -balance is righteousness. 
God has made the law; the keystone is the 
Mosaic Commandments, the archway is the 
New Commandments. 

It matters not what your belief may be, 
you cannot avoid these laws and preserve 
your eternal fitness; which comes by fasting 
and prayer. To fast is to eliminate the un- 
necessary; to pray is to constantly determine 



32 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

to attain the necessary. We should wait 
until spiritual power is unable to supply our 
needs before calling upon God, who has fur- 
nished us more than we are using. We 
should be ashamed to ask God to do our 
work. The problem is ours. The victory 
will be ours; but woe unto him who shall 
fail. ''There shall he weeping and wailing and 
gnashing oj teeth'' ; while ''the meek shall in- 
herit the earth.'' 

Knowledge is the power of eliminating 
unreality and uncovering reality by positive 
action. God has given you all you need 
with which to build a perfect man. If you 
act the prodigal son and waste your strength 
in riotous living, casting your pearls before 
swine, following the fancies of supposed ma- 
terial pleasures, you worship in idolatry; 
you have sacrificed reality for unreality; you 
will be brought before the court of God a 
bankrupt; and life will be taken from you 
who have not and given to him who has. 
This is God's law, which is automatic and 
eternal. We must take an inventory of our- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCK. 33 

selves — be weighed in the balance and 
found wanting — befoie we can know our 
own measure. 

Understanding where to build and where 
to destroy is the science of life. When we 
weigh ourselves by scientific analysis, we 
will find so much to do that we will see as 
much good in our neighbor as in ourselves. 
When we learn to think as we would have 
others think, we will have no time to find 
fault with our neighbor; we will be too busy 
preparing our own temple — building a house 
sufficiently cleansed to harbor spirituality, 
when our consciousness becomes awakened 
to higher development. 

Thus to understand how, when, and where 
to build, and what to destroy, we must be 
able to analyze ourselves, and ascertain our 
relationship to those things which surround 
us. Begin with the fundamental principle 
and premise: that we are sure we have life, 
with power to think, act, and move; with 
charity and direction toward those whom we 
see about us in God's image and likeness. As 



34 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

we expand our expression of thought and 
look beyond us, we can see that all is Life, 
and Life is all ; all is Light, and Light is all; all 
is Love, and Love is all ; all is Law, and Law 
is all. 

Life is existence; Love, to recognize that 
others exist; Lights to understand; and LaWy 
to apply. 

As we analyze ourselves thoroughly, we 
observe that we are creatures of intelligence, 
and that intelligence is a law of our existence; 
and as we observe the great field of Nature 
and the universe about us, we find within it 
the reflection of a plan which appeals to our 
intelligence; and as we reason, compare, and 
analyze, we must conclude that intelligence 
is behind the universal plan; and that this 
intelligence reflects Life as we see it in the 
universe, and Love, because we find charity 
between and among all things, and Light, or 
understanding to sustain these things, and 
Law, or direction to guide them. 

Thus we find ourselves prepared to con- 
clude that the principle of intelligence, wis- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 35 

dom, and power to create Life, Low, Light, 
and Law must contain Life, Love, Light, and 
Law. This power to create intelligence 
such as we find within otirselves must be 
intelligence; for certainly it would be fool- 
ish to conclude that non-intelligence could 
create intelligence, and we are forced to 
observe that mankind is not self -creative. 
The fowl eats the corn and grows feathers, 
the horse eats the corn and grows hair, the 
hog eats the corn and grows bristles, and the 
cow eats the corn and grows horns. In this 
law man has no part. In Nature there are 
many instances where animals live upon the 
same kind of food, but manifest entirely dif- 
ferent forms of life. 

We also know that in plant life different 
plants growing in the same- soil manifest en- 
tirely different natures, and some people think 
they require the different forms of plant life 
as food to maintain health. Surely man has 
no part in the laws manifesting animal and 
plant life; neither has he aught to do with 
their supply, but he can cultivate them. So 



36 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

can he cultivate himself by right thought; 
and his supply, which comes from within as 
well as from all life, is unlimited to attain ' 
truth. 

We can go a step further and say that 
there can be but one Creator, and this Cre- 
ator is Life, Love, Light, and Law; because 
that which is created, the universe, reflects 
Life, Love, Light, and Law, Thus our first 
premise: God is Life, Love, Light, and Law\ 
and our first tenet : There is hut one God, the 
Creator of the universe, reflecting Life, Love, 
Light, and Law, To comphehend these prin- 
ciples is the beginning of understanding, and 
perfect understanding accepts God. But Job 
said, ^'Who is this that darkeneth counsel by 
words without knowledge?'' To acquire knowl- 
edge and be able to impart it to others is an 
achievement of a lifetime. ''God said. Let 
there be light: and there was light.'' Light 
and darkness, knowledge and ignorance, are 
continually before us. To acquire under- 
standing, we must turn our faces toward the 
light. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 37 

The progress of the world has been marked 
by great characters and great souls, who have 
sacrificed all for knowledge, that they might 
impart it to others; yet many people accept 
the wisdom and understanding of these great 
minds as they would swallow a prune seed — 
they never get the kernel; to get the kernel, 
we must crack the shell; it matters little how 
we crack the shell if we get the meat, but we 
cannot crack the shell without faith. 

Thus, things which we find in Ancient 
Script are not true because we find them re- 
corded, but better might we say that they 
are recorded because they are the true tes- 
timony of life or reality. 

Thus the beginning is to prepare ourselves 
to gather these truths and bring them into 
our own understanding. Preparation con- 
sists in bringing ourselves into proper attitude 
to receive, cleanse the body, open the mind, 
and purify thought; then determine to sac- 
rifice all for truth, and decide to apply what 
we learn. Eliminate that which you cannot 
use — that which does not build — and cen- 



38 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

ter your forces for action upon that which 
you desire; then bring yourself into the form 
of service, and attract good by doing good. 
The test of truth is demonstration. A thing 
that is true will work. A principle that is 
true can be demonstrated. Think, express, 
apply, demonstrate — this is the scale with 
which to measure progress. When you suc- 
ceed in demonstrating, give out that which 
you have received. As you live the knowl- 
edge you have, day by day you will gather 
knowledge as you go. When you give out 
truth, you will receive truth in return — 
this means growth; when you give out 
error, you receive nothing in return — this 
means death. Never be too old to learn. 
Age is only relative, and experience only com- 
parative. He who is too old to learn is al- 
ready dead, but does not know it. 

The instruments that we must use to 
gather knowledge are logic, reason, and anal- 
ysis. We must learn to divide things into 
their simple parts — to compare one with the 
other, determine their values, and establish 



SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 39 

their purpose by active service. To do this, 
we must keep an open mind, a healthy body; 
be courageous and steadfast, never swerving 
from the path of duty and righteousness. 
Steadfastness means to ever keep an even 
mind. The result will be an equal devel- 
opment of all your talents, forces, and pow- 
ers — bringing yourself into harmony with 
the laws of truth. Education is a process 
of elimination — not a process of addition. 
Righteousness consists of more than being 
good; it includes the acquiring and demon- 
strating of power and better achievement; 
broadens the ability and opens the path 
to better and bigger things: the discover- 
ing of truth and the elimination of error; 
the development of understanding, which 
brings power and authority. 

And behold one came and said unto Him, 
''What good thing shall I doy that I may have 
eternal life?'' And He said unto him, ''Why 
callest thou me good? There is none good hut 
one, that is, God: hut if thou wilt enter in- 
to life, keep the commandments,'* To begin 



40 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

aright, you must come into the kingdom of 
God. A government, to be of value, must 
be founded upon a law of authority — must 
be able to demand and enforce obedience to 
that law, and must be able to protect the 
citizenship of obedience. If we expect the 
protection of citizenship in the kingdom of 
God, we must abide the law of that kingdom. 
You are not subject to the law of any coun- 
try unless you reside within that country. 
So it is when we neglect the laws of God, we 
put ourselves outside of his kingdom. God 
has ordained the law to support His kingdom. 
When we support His kingdom, he will sup- 
port us. 

So Christ answered and said: ''Thou 
shalt do no murder; Thou shall not commit 
adultery; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not 
hear false witness; Honor thy father and thy 
mother, and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as 
thyself. If thou wilt he perfect, go and sell 
that thou hast and give to the poor, and thou 
shall have treasure in heaven: and come and 
follow me,'' And the young man went away 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 41 

sorrowing, because he had much of this 
world's goods. He thought he had been 
keeping the commandments, but when the 
test was applied to demonstrate whether he 
loved his neighbor as he should, he was unable 
to act; he preferred to depend upon material 
law for his support, rather than to come into 
the kingdom of God. He did not abide the 
law, therefore he was not entitled to protec- 
tion and citizenship under the law, and he 
went away sorrowing. 

We have this lesson taught in the illus- 
tration of the man who had two sons: ''A 
certain man had two sons; and he came to the 
first, and said, Son, go work to-day in my vine- 
yard. He answered and said, I will not: hut 
afterward he repented, and went. And he 
came to the second and said likewise. And he 
answered and said, I go, sir: and went not^ 
Which of these should be entitled to pay? If 
you understand this lesson, go and teach all 
nations. The responsibility rests upon you. 

Thus we conclude that the beginning is to 
find the way of salvation; to learn that ''the 



42 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want''; 
that there is but one God, the Creator of 
the Universe, reflecting Life, Love, Light, and 
Law; that man is a child of the perfect God. 



SPIRITUAI. SCIJENCE. 43 



Chapter II. 



PHYSICAL MAN. 

Nature is constant testimony of God's re- 
flection of the Divine Principle, 

Man can be divided into three component 
individuals, which are the Physical man, the 
Mental man, and the Spiritual man. 

The physical man is our first inheritance. 
It is in harmony with natural laws that we 
should attain perfect physical development. 

Physical power, force, and action are the 
instruments which we niust use to manifest 
and perform our objective duties — the com- 
mon every-day things of life. It is the little 
things in life that count. To enjoy our phys- 
ical inheritance, we must claim it and use it 
for good purpose. That which is used for 
aught hut good is subject to the law of self- 
destruction. You cannot commingle powder 
and fire without explosion; you cannot mix 
physical force with abuse, misuse, and neg- 
lect without bringing about its destruction. 



44 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

In sustaining health, it is not physical 
structure which we must deny; we cannot 
conserve that which does not exist; but we 
must deny the erroneous attitude which re- 
flects sickness, and affirm that truth, struct- 
ure y and life cannot become sick; realizing 
that erroneous thoughts are sickness, re- 
flecting the ills of ignorant mind. To heal 
the physical body of any erroneous condition, 
we must realize that the body in health is 
reality and the creation of Divine Intelligence. 
To deny that the physical body exists is to 
deny God and His most perfect work. 

Physical structure is a natural phenom- 
enon and we observe it in many forms of 
life. Nature is a physical manifestation and 
a constant testimony of physical struct- 
ure when harmonized with truth. Physical 
structure is real; it is God's idea. Error 
fails to reflect physical structure and de- 
stroys itself. Physical structure is not er- 
ror, but is substance. Physical structure is 
the phenomena of life manifesting the prin- 
ciple of life. When we conceive truth, we 



SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 45 

become order, purity, harmony, reflecting 
the principle of the Father of all life. 

Misconception of physical structure is 
error, death, matter, inharmony, confusion, 
and disorder. Physical structure and health 
is truth, life, reality, and order. Physical 
ignorance and sickness is matter, confusion, 
and disorder. Understanding physical struct- 
ure and physical laws is the manifestation 
of truth, and that which brings stability, 
control, and command. 

Thus physical structure is not matter, 
while material disorder is matter. The 
problem is to command and control the 
physical manifestation and overcome lack of 
control and lack of the true manifestation. 
We must first learn to keep the physical law 
and command the physical law before we are 
able to claim our physical inheritance, which 
is strength, health, and endurance. 

The manifestation of physical structure 
is the manifestation of the mental man re- 
flected through the physical man. If the re- 
flection is sickness, disorder, and lack of con- 



46 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

trol, it represents a mental man of misunder- 
standing, misconception, an^d error. If the 
physical structure in its manifestation re- 
flects health, it is the phenomena of the 
mental man in truth and order. Health is 
the thermometer and index indicating wheth- 
er or not the physical law is being met in 
thought. 

When you lose control of the physical man , 
reflection will appear in health, and if health 
is not present, your indicator is testifying the 
results of violation of the physical laws, 
which must be adjusted by right thinking 
and righteous conduct before health can be 
restored. Thus health is the compass of 
righteous thought and conduct, as a final 
rule, and when man is not healthy he is 
guilty of ignorant thought and error and 
must correct it. 

The physician deals mostly with the 
physical man and physical laws, and should 
not be condemned because he may, through 
surgical operation, mental or chemical treat- 
ment, remove physical conditions which the 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 47 

patient is not strong enough to overcome be- 
cause of his failure to think right. However, 
it may be safely said that those who think 
right and understand the operation and ap- 
plication of physical law will require no phy- 
sician. The physical body, under the direc- 
tion of an understanding mind, is the great- 
est chemical laboratory in the universe. But 
this understanding is a process of growth and 
development of the individual in accord with 
his application of the laws of truth. Deny- 
ing matter is not denying substance, struct- 
ure, and life. Neither can the affirmation of 
truth admit matter, which is confusion. 

Matter is that which appears real to 
ignorant mind, because of the disorder 
of those elements which, when properly ar- 
ranged, manifest truth. We may correct er- 
ror, but we cannot overcome truth, because 
truth ever was and ever will be. Error ap- 
pears to exist only because we misconceive 
truth. Error has no law unto itself except 
confusion. Truth is ever eternal and per- 
manent. Physical truth is harmonizing the 



48 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

physical law. Error disorganizes our phys- 
ical law. 

The first mission of man is to learn and 
then apply the law of physical structure. 
Substance in proper action, under the direc- 
tion of mind, is life, and life is substance in 
action performing its mission of preparation. 

Everything we accomplish is only a step- 
ping-stone to our next inheritance, and the 
first must always be sacrificed for the second. 
We ^sacrifice our food that we may have 
blood, we sacrifice our blood that we may 
have brain tissue, we sacrifice our brain tis- 
sue that we may learn to think, and we sac- 
rifice our thoughts that we may form ideas. 
Thus we find that to attain the physical 
law is only to sacrifice it for a higher law. 
Health is only a means to an end. We must 
sacrifice our strength that we may perform 
our mission; but we must not cast our pearls 
before swine and consume our forces in riot- 
ous living; if we do this, we have burned 
our oil before the coming of the bridegroom, 
and we will have no oil left with which to 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 49 

light our lamps when opportunity appears 
before us. 

Mental man has no conception of life out- 
side of its phenomena and manifestations. 
All that we perceive through our mental 
senses in mineral; vegetable, and animal life, 
including mankind, are the physical manifes- 
tations and phenomena of the Life Principle. 
When the Life Principle appears in all its 
force, these forms of life manifest perfectly. 
When the Life Principle partially appears, 
these forms of life operate and manifest im- 
perfectly, and in them is found blight, dis- 
ease, and decay, and lack of physical struct- 
ure. When the Life Principle disappears, 
these forms of life immediately cease to mani- 
fest. The materials out of which these vari- 
ous forms of phenomena are made manifest 
to the senses are not permanent in their 
texture and existence, while the principle of 
manifestation is permanent. The physical 
body is constantly preparing and using ma- 
terial substance. We cannot operate on the 
physical plane except throughl^substance. 



50 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

There is no diflerence between material sub- 
stance in the physical body and material sub- 
stance out of the physical body, after the Life 
Principle disappears. 

Denying matter is not denying substance 
and structure. Affirming truth is not deny- 
ing substance, structure, and life. Life is 
substance in action; serving, fulfilling its mis- 
sion. Life is active, positive; matter is inert, 
negative. Substance in action is phenome- 
na, expressions, and demonstrations. Phe- 
nomena are never present in the absence of 
life and action. Life, mind, spirit, and ac- 
tion reflecting through substance manifest 
phenomena in their various forms, beauties, 
conditions, and degrees. Thus we may say 
that mental man has no conception of life 
outside of its phenomena. He cannot con- 
ceive of the plant except as it manifests — . 
reflecting through substance; he cannot con- 
ceive of a universe except as it manifests — 
reflecting through substance; he has no con- 
ception of animal life except as it manifests 
through substance; he has no conception of 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 51 

God except as He manifests through sub- 
stance. Still, as we gather the dry dust 
upon the earth and find that it is dead and 
lifeless until it is mixed with moisture, 
warmed by the sunlight, and given breath of 
life by the atmosphere; it will not grow the 
tender plants nor bring into blossom the 
beautiful rosebud — so can we know that sub- 
stance, unless it is harmonized with life and 
action and the force and power of mind and 
spirit, will not manifest in the kingdom of 
mankind and bring forth a child of that 
kingdom. 

Thus physical structure is phenomena, 
action, life, and truth. Material inertia is 
eri;or and death. Physical structure in sick- 
ness is the phenomena of ignorant mind, er- 
ror, and matter. Physical structure in health 
is the phenomena of perfect mind, truth, and 
order. 

Thus we find that Love, Light, and Law 
in action is Life, Faith, and Truth. This is 
the key unlocking our first inheritance and 
the power commanding the physical man. 



52 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

Unless we attain and are able to use our 
first inheritance, we need have no hope 
of gaining our second inheritance. ''To him 
that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree 
oj lifer 

To him who is able, through faith and 
command, to bring the physical man under 
perfect control will be given the power of his 
inheritance, progress, and growth. But he 
who fails to overcome reaps death — not 
eternal punishment, but death — eternal 
physical death. When the captain fails to 
command his boat and it strikes the rock, it 
means destruction — not eternal punish- 
ment, but eternal destruction, unless he raises 
and repairs the boat. To fail to overcome is 
misconception, confusion, error, and matter. 
The man who does not know the law of phys- 
ical structure cannot reap the reward of phys- 
ical command. A soul who cannot withstand 
temptation and subdue physical appetite 
in this life could not keep Heaven if at- 
tained. Sin and sickness is the result of mis- 
conception, confusion, and error; purity and 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCB. 53 

health is the reflection of conception, order, 
and truth. Misconception is matter, confu- 
sion, and error. Conception is substance, 
order, and truth. Sin, sickness, error, mis- 
conception, and confusion bring death; pu- 
rity, health, conception, order, truth, and 
faith bring eternal life. 

The chief elements of physical structure, 
so far as the human body is concerned, are: 
Bone, which gives shape; Flesh, which gives 
form; Blood, which gives life; and Nerve, 
which gives action. These compose the 
temple four-square ; these are the instruments 
with which the mental man must do his 
work. The reward of physical manifesta- 
tion and perfect control (thought) is health. 
Perfect conditions of the physical man and 
the highest attainment which can be accom- 
plished for physical man is the condition of 
health. Health to the physical man is only 
a means to an end, because the physical in its 
entirety is only an instrument with which 
mankind may demonstrate in the physical 
or objective consciousness; and before all 



54 SPIRITUAI. SCIENCK. 

these is the right to be born into the physical 
world. The greatest sin in this world is to 
deny a soul the right to physical expression 
through his right of being born. 

A man who has not health cannot com- 
plete his mission in life. One denied the 
right of birth cannot do his work here. A 
man who cannot complete his mission in 
life, or who does not complete his mission in 
life, has left his work undone, and will re- 
ceive no pay. Health, action, and wisdom 
are the three prime attainments of mankind. 
Health is the supreme attainment of physical 
man; action and thought are the supreme 
attainments of the mental man; understand- 
ing and wisdom are the supreme attainments 
of the spiritual man. 

Physical structure is sustained, directed, 
restrained, and guarded through the five 
senses. Physical shape, form, life, action, 
condition, and endurance are the reflections 
of the development of these senses into the 
consciousness of truth. The newly born 
babe has the five senses within its conscious- 



SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 55 

ness, but as it develops and grows these 
faculties unfold like the blooming of the rose 
until they have attained perfect action and 
balance. When they have attained perfect 
action and balance, they reflect and manifest 
a perfect physical man. These manifesta- 
tions are the results of truth and order. 
When the physical senses are distorted, part- 
ly developed, partly undeveloped, and un- 
equally developed, and not controlled by 
right thought, they manifest an imperfect 
physical man, which is the reflection of error, 
disorder, and confusion. Thus to attain the 
complete control of physical structure within 
us, we must understandingly connect and 
support the physical man with the five phys- 
ical senses, which become the mediator be- 
tween the physical man and his manifesta- 
tions of health, and the mental man and his 
manifestations of action, thought. 

Thus if the physical senses are balanced 
by right thinking, structure is balanced. If 
the physical senses are cultivated to crave 
error, physical manifestation becomes ab- 



56 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

normal. You cannot produce good music — 
harmony — with an imperfect instrument. 
You cannot run clear water through a mud- 
hole. You cannot put a quart measure into 
a pint cup. But you can produce good music 
through a perfect instrument, and you can 
remove the mud and dirt from the pool and 
it becomes clear as crystal. Purity is the 
foundation of growth and progress, and when 
the water in the pool is made pure, you can 
see yourself clearly therein. When the phys- 
ical body is purified and free from the in- 
fluence of impurity, it will manifest health. 
But the man, woman, or child who is yet 
unable to command physical structure and 
health will do well to secure the aid and as- 
sistance of a healer or a medical adviser, as 
a man who is uncertain of his step will do 
well to use a cane until such time as practice 
may have perfected his balance so that he 
will need no cane, but can walk with perfect 
balance and assurance. So can this same 
mental man — the individual who is sick 
and subject to sin and error — pit hi^ ad- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCK. 57 

viser against his ills until such time as he 
may regain command (understanding) and 
health, when he will need no physician except 
action, thought. 

When you become able to see yourself 
and understand yourself, you are ready and 
competent to take command of your physical 
self and make your physical body an instru- 
ment for truth. When you make your body 
an instrument for truth, the door is open for 
a higher conception, which will reveal the 
mental man. But there is no opportunity 
for the perfect manifestation of the mental 
man until you have commanded health in 
the physical man, supporting him by the 
law of truth. You cannot see or comprehend 
the mental man until the physical man is 
under control and made clean. 

You can not cleanse the physical man 
and allow the lust of appetite to overpower 
the law of temperance. A soul which cannot 
withstand temptation now cannot withstand 
temptation hereafter. As we sow, so shall 
we reap. You can not waste your physical 



58 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

substance and strength and build a perfect 
physical instrument. When you draw upon 
your physical reservoir to please and grat- 
ify the abnormal mortal senses, you sacrifice 
perfect physical reflection. Everything you 
acquire must sacrifice something not ac- 
quired. To acquire perfect physical reflec- 
tion and health, you must sacrifice material 
gratification — lust. To gain material grati- 
fications, you must sacrifice perfect physical 
reflection. Physical structure of itself is in- 
active, but, when subject to command, its 
possibilities are limited only to the degree of 
command. Health, Strength, and Perfection 
are its goal. 

Melchizedek could so perfectly command 
the physical body as to cause his appearance 
and disappearance at will. Violation of the 
laws of purity and disobedience of the law of 
truth disinherit us of this power to so com- 
mand the physical body. We must keep the 
physical body clean, well fed, properly exer- 
cised; not waste it for useless purposes; and 
keep it free from useless matter, both in- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 59 

ternally and externally; provide plenty of 
fresh air, ether, and magnetism; keep it well 
dressed and under control. Without these 
conditions there is no chanct for mental and 
spiritual growth. 

In ancient times many men, because of 
their righteous thought and living close to 
Nature, were in perfect atune with the spir- 
itual law, and many were able to walk and 
talk with spiritual beings. These individuals 
sacrificed materiality for spirituality. They 
realized that physical structure goes beyond 
the physical body, yet their mode of living 
was simplicity; while modern life is filled 
with luxury. But with time and experience 
man is again beginning to learn that his 
wants can be supplied by right thinking. 
Adam could have ridden in an automobile 
had he been able to think and build one. 
All the material required to compose our 
modern inventions and machinery existed in 
the elements of Nature in the time of Adam 
as well as now, but necessity had not put the 
thoughts of men into action to create the 



6o SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 

great instruments of transportation, such as 
railroads, steamships, automobiles, and air- 
ships; and to harness the great instruments 
of power, such as steam and electricity; and 
to utilize the great instruments of production, 
such as the printing press, steel mills, flour 
mills, cloth mills, and the harvesting ma- 
chine ; and to develop the instruments of edu- 
cation, such as the talking machine, the mo- 
tion picture, and the telescope. 

In order to take advantage of the great 
instruments of comfort, such as the articles 
used in the modern home and provided in 
the modern building, and the utensils of mod- 
ern service, or to take command of the great 
instruments of education, or use the instru- 
ments of transportation, we must under- 
stand the experience of history, and that all 
of the foregoing are the possibilities and ex- 
tensions of the physical man. Yet with his 
own physical body, mankind has not en- 
tirely learned how to use it properly; also, 
instead of using these gifts of intelligence for 
the betterment of man and the glory of God, 



SPIRITUAI. SCIISNCE. 6 1 

they are often being used to make the rich 
richer and the poor poorer. This is due to 
the fact that mankind cannot apply the 
Golden Rule to the use of the necessities and 
luxuries. He has lost an interest in all but 
the present. He is sacrificing spirituality for 
materiality. He is living in idolatry, giving 
up the greater for the lesser. 

How much better will the world be when 
mankind learns to supply his needs by proper 
thinking, and conform his wants to the law 
of righteousness! Then will man find that 
when he needs food, there will be food ; when 
he needs raiment, there will be raiment; 
when he needs shelter, there will be shelter; 
when he needs luxury, there will be luxury; 
when he wants health, there will be health; 
when he wants religion, there will be religion ; 
when he wants happiness, there will be hap- 
piness; when he wants truth, there will be 
truth; when he wants materiality, there will 
be materiality; when he wants spirituality, 
there will be spirituality ; when he wants ac- 
tion, there will be power; when he wants 



62 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

knowledge, there will be wisdom; when he 
wants Gody he will find God. 

Before we can bring the physical body- 
under perfect control, we must learn to relax 
ourselves, to lose the abnormal and the er- 
roneous sensation of the body, and object- 
ively forget that we have a body. You 
have never experienced a pain without think- 
ing about the part of the body which pains 
you. So long as you can objectively for- 
get that you have a body, you will have no 
pain. Sleep is a form of perfect relaxation, 
intended by Nature to open the door to self- 
control. When we are able to relax during 
consciousness, as we do during sleep, we have 
gained the first step of self-control. 

The power of heath is within us and is 
nourished by faith. We must learn to nour- 
ish the body by keeping it clean, especially 
the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, 
and the lungs. 

The physical body is balanced by three 
breaths: First, air, which is breathed into 
the lungs; second, ether, which is breathed 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 63 

by the palms of the hands ; third, electricity, 
which is breathed into the soles of the feet. 

In the human body, air purifies, ether re- 
stores, and electricity resurrects. But there 
is yet the fourth breath, or the master breath, 
which is the regenerating of one's self, and 
admitting the spirit of reverence, faith, and 
cheer, which is personified illumination. 

Bathe at least twice each week in water 
tempered to harmonize with the weather. 
Never use anything except pure water. 
Bathe the hands, feet, and face daily iji pure 
water. Exercise the body daily with any 
light exercise that will keep all the muscles 
and joints loose and force the new blood into 
all palrts of the body. Never engage in 
strenuous exercise. Exercise must be ac- 
companied with physical and mental relaxa- 
tion. Eat enough to satisfy hunger, and 
then quit. Never eat more than two or 
three different kinds of food at a meal. Eat 
regularly. Eat a portion of each kind of 
food once a month. Make meal-time fun- 
time. Never take anything into the system 



64 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

that is not food. Drink plenty of pure water. 
Be temperate in all things. Molecules and 
muscles cannot pain or be sick, but when the 
Life Principle disappears, they cannot act, 
and the mind suffers grief and pain. 

The man who breathes only is bound to a 
material consciousness little above the ani- 
mals — deaf, dumb, and blind to all beyond 
the physical senses; is destitute of mental 
taste; thinks little of the future, lives in the 
past, and is satisfied in the present to take 
things as they come. Age begins when we 
begin to live in the past instead of the future. 

The man who breathes, thinks, and lives, 
and who has the master breath, is alive. He 
has a high mental taste; lives in the present; 
has ideas and can express and execute them; 
craves knowledge, money, and position that 
he may be able to serve his fellow-men and 
develop an individuality; is willing to sac- 
rifice his pleasure, fortune, and talent to 
better society and render a service to the 
world for the glory of his Creator. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 65 



Chapter III. 



THE MENTAL MAN. 

Man, created in the image of God, is a 
spiritual being, manifesting the Divine, 

The mind is our second inheritance. 
Mankind has more intelligence and demon- 
strates less natural sense than any other 
creature; but, when properly balanced, the 
two become one, and man is truly intelligent. 
The mental man, or the mind, is the com- 
mander of the physical man. The physical 
man is his servant and instrument. It is 
through the physical man that the mental 
man must demonstrate and manifest in the 
objective plane of consciousness. 

We are unable to see the mind, yet we 
may become so sensitive as to feel its pres- 
ence. The mental man, or the mind, cannot 
command an imperfect physical man. I 
might have all the mind power necessary to 
move my hand, but were it amputated, I 



66 SPIRITUAL SCIENCK- 

could not move it, though spiritual power 
could restore it. An undeveloped mental 
man cannot control a perfect physical man. 
I might have two perfect hands, but I could 
not move them without the aid of the mind. 
A musician cannot produce harmonious mu- 
sic on an instrument that is out of tune; 
an ignorant man cannot produce harmonious 
music on an instrument perfectly in tune; 
but an educated musician, with a perfect in- 
strument, can perform miracles of harmony. 
The physical man is the active demonstra- 
tion and manifestation of the mind — the 
mental man. Because the physical man is 
subject to the command of the mental man, 
the mind reflects the image of the mental 
man through the physical man. From the 
countenance we are able to discern what 
manner of man lives behind the screen. From 
conduct we are able to know what character 
of man lives within the mind. 

The mental man cannot demonstrate act- 
ively except through the physical man, but 
he may demonstrate silently far beyond the 
physical man. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 67 

Concentration y Meditation, Imagination, 
and Harmony are the first stepping-stones 
to mental development. Concentration is 
bringing our interest and attention toward 
a certain object or purpose with determina- 
tion. Meditation is directing our thoughts 
and our desires toward the accomplishment 
of that purpose upon which we are concen- 
trating. Thoughts are things, which become 
realities, and every mental manifestation in 
the universe was first conceived in the sanc- 
tuary of thought. Everything constructed 
and created by mankind was first a mental 
picture upon the screen of thought. Imag- 
ination is constructing our thoughts, which 
have been centered by concentration, and 
forming them into definite ideas. To illus- 
trate : I may have observed along the way a 
house with a bay window; again, I may have 
observed a house with a gable. Imagination, 
from these impressions brought forth from 
the mind, constructs a house with a bay win- 
dow and a gable, and throws it upon the 
screen of thought that it may become a defi- 



68 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

nite idea and a plan from which I may build 
a material structure to reflect that image 
created within my mind through imagination. 

Harmony is the equal balancing of 
concentration, meditation, and imagination 
within the law of possibilities, and holds 
back the extreme in all things. The mental 
man must be brought into harmony with the 
law of truth that he may reflect a perfect 
physical man. 

When you plant a seed, it must have earth, 
air, heat, and moisture, and when these are 
in proper proportion, the seed will grow and 
reproduce itself. When the mental man has 
concentration, meditation, imagination, and 
harmony in proper proportion, put into ap- 
plication with due preparation, the mental 
man will commence to unfold and grow and 
produce that which is necessary for higher 
development. 

Harmony is based upon the law of balance 
and is the scale and measuring guide with 
which to gauge the way of progress and the 
mental unfoldment in equal proportion of 



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the governing mental faculties, which are ac- 
tion, force, faith, and courage. Perfect ac- 
tion is the highest attainment of the niental 
man, and can only be accomplished when 
perfect health is present in the physical man. 
When life is present, action and motion are 
present ; when action and motion are present, 
force and power are present ; when force and 
power are present, faith is developed; and 
when faith is developed and guided by judg- 
ment and balance, courage is a certain result. 
When harmony is established between the 
mental and physical man, health, endurance, 
self-reliance, and self-control are the fruits, 
and perfection is the final reward. 

These conditions open and broaden the 
way for meditation, memory, imagination, 
harmony, judgment, and will, which measure 
the possibilities for mental unfoldment and 
balance the conscious and subconscious mind. 
The conscious mind is that part of the men- 
tal man which is in action; the subconscious 
mind is that part of the metal man which is 
not in action. The conscious mind acts, 



70 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

the subconscious stimulates and sustains. 
Memory is the receptacle that holds the sub- 
conscious mind. Consciousness is the plane 
upon which the conscious mind acts. Im- 
agination is the connecting link, harmony is 
the receptacle which contains judgment, and 
will is the receptacle of steadfast determina- 
tion and endurance. Imagination is the mo- 
tor power, concentration is the highway, 
meditation is the vehicle, judgment is the 
governing power, and harmony is the balance 
wheel of the mental man. Without a com- 
plete co-operation of these faculties, destruc- 
tion is certain. 

Thought is the first positive action of 
the mind. Inspiration is the first child of 
thought. Thought is the connecting link 
between the mental man and the spiritual 
man. Perfect concentration, perfect medi- 
tation, and perfect imagination brings perfect 
inspiration, which admts the way to purifica- 
tion. Purification is the doorway to perfec- 
tion, which admit the reflection of the spir- 
itual man and brings perfect generation, per- 



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feet regeneration, perfect illumination, and 
perfect resurrection, or the complete man 
born again. Except we he horn of water 
{purification) and of spirit {illumination), 
we cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven 
{harmony) . 

The complete man, which is a perfect de- 
velopment of the physical, mental, and spir- 
itual entity, perfectly reflects the mission of 
all three. Life, Father, or will; Love, the Son, 
sacrifice and service; Light, the Holy Ghost, 
understanding and wisdom; and Law, har- 
mony, perfect application and demonstra- 
tion of all things. 

The law of health is the foundation upon 
which the mental man must sustain and 
control the physical man. Health is 
founded upon the power to control oneself. 
First, control the mind; second, control the 
hody. Health is only a means to an end — 
that the mental man may be better able to 
manifest in the physical plane. When we 
have gained our first inheritance, health, to 
keep it we must reserve our physical powers 



72 SPIRITUAL SCIBNCE. 

and use these powers to serve. When we fail 
to use our physical powers for service, we are 
burning our sacrifice on the altar of idolatry; 
we are worshiping unknown gods. When we 
use our physical forces to serve and better 
the world, we are worshiping at the shrine 
of truth, and great is the reward of truth. 

Material substance is of two kinds: 
first, active; second, inactive. Active sub^ 
stance is that through which life is mani- 
fested and which becomes life substance. 
Inactive substance is that through which life 
is not manifested and which must pass 
through death, decomposition, before life en- 
ters and manifests. The seed might serve 
to represent inactive life, which must pass 
through death, decomposition, to bring forth 
the plant, which is active life. Where there 
is action and motion, there is life in some 
form. 

Mind is of two kinds : ignorant mind and 
perfect mind. Ignorant mind is a miscon- 
ception or partial conception of truth, and 
the result is confusion, sin, sickness, and 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 73 

death. A soul passes through its death of 
confusion into the law of purity, order, and 
truth, to come into harmony with Divine 
Mind, which is conception, understanding, 
truth, health, and wisdom. Matter, through 
misconception, is error; but when brought 
into harmony and proper arrangement, be- 
comes truth. To illustrate : We might take 
a watch or timepiece, and when that watch 
is regulated it keeps perfect time and be- 
comes understanding and is controlled by 
understanding, but when it becomes irregular 
it is of no value, it serves no purpose — it is 
error, confusion, and disorder and this 
principle applies to the physical body, also 
the mental man. One is ignorant mind, the 
other is Divine Mind. The mind becomes 
Divine when brought into order through the 
law of truth and understanding. The most 
ignorant becomes Divine when regulated by 
understanding — ceasing to be ignorant and 
becoming righteous. When a man has un- 
derstanding, he does no wrong. We need not 
deny that which does not exist; we should 



74 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

not deny that which does exist ; but we must 
cast out fear and affirm truth. 

Desire is of two kinds : first, desire for sen- 
sation; second, desire for knowledge. Desire 
for sensation is based on selfishness, and has 
no ambition other than the gratification of 
one's own selfish appetite. Desire for knowl- 
edge broadens; is unselfish, and ambitious 
to serve — to become a known quantity for 
a worthy cause. The mental man must act 
in harmony with the law of service and the 
law of health. The simple rules of health 
are: pure eating, pure breathing, pure liv- 
ing, and pure thinking. These things build 
the physical man and the mental man in har- 
mony and four-square. The sum of a man is 
equal to the square of his shortest side. A 
chain is no stronger than its weakest link. 

Through mental attitude with under- 
standing we can take out of our food those 
elements necessary for particular develop- 
ment desired. This requires the co-operation 
of the physical and the mental man through 
faith. But neither health nor the power to 



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attain it is to be worshiped, neither should 
it be used as a beast of burden, but rather as 
a messenger for truth. 

Fear is the greatest enemy of the mental 
and physical man When fear is allowed to 
poison the imagination, health is destroyed; 
when faith is allowed to cherish the imagina- 
tion, health is sustained. Thus we should 
remember to control our powers in proper 
action with understanding, in harmony with 
truth, desiring knowledge, fulfilling our Di- 
vine mission. Persons who have a mission 
to fulfill have no time to be sick, and we 
know that: As man thinks with his mindy so 
is he. To sustain health, cast out fear and 
the condition of inharmony and sickness, and 
with faith hold a thought-picture of yourself 
as you would appear in perfect health, real- 
izing that all things are possible with God; the 
perfect condition will then come to you and 
the old will drop away. Remember that you 
cannot keep new wine m old bottles. You 
cannot use a good mind through an un- 
healthy body. Do not allow your mind to 



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dwell upon your ailments; and if you have 
not the mental understanding to sustain 
health, and find yourself surrounded by a 
state of confusion, renew your faith in the 
law of health; and when you employ a phy- 
sician or healer to help you over the hard 
places, found your faith and hope upon the 
desire for better understanding, and allow 
your helper to attend to details. 

It is the application of the law, and not 
the neglect of the law, that sustains health; 
it is the application of the law, and not the 
neglect of the law, that removes error; it is 
the application of the law, and not the neg- 
lect of the law, that brings righteousness. 
Remember that he who is in harmony with 
the Divine Mind cannot be sick, cannot sin, 
cannot be selfish, cannot be ignorant, cannot 
be weak, cannot be wrong, cannot be subject 
to death. Therefore, such things have no 
part in understanding, are not a part of wis- 
dom, and cannot affect those who are in per- 
fect harmony and in accord with truth 

Concentration meditation, imagination, 



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and harmony are the stepping-stones to 
mental control. If imagination, not being 
controlled, can make us sick, magination, if 
properly controlled, can make us well and 
keep us well. A man who acts without a 
purpose ceases to act with effect ; a man who 
acts with a good purpose becomes a strong 
man ; the man who acts with a bad purpose 
becomes lost in confusion. If we wish to de- 
velop thoughtfulness, we must speak and act 
thoughtfully. A man begins to live only 
when he begins to think. Man begins to be 
competent mentally only after he has com- 
manded health physically. Imagination is 
not a mythical thing, but rather a construc- 
tive force ; imagination is the building quality 
of the mind. When we use the expression, 
"He imagines he is sick/' we mean that he 
has lost control of and faith in the construc- 
tive building mental force and power which 
God gave us for self-preservation, and this 
force and power, not being governed and 
under control, has brought confusion, fear, 
disorder, and error into our mental attitude 



78 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

To control this same power of imagination, 
we remove fear, disorder, confusion, and er- 
ror, and restore health through faith and 
suggestion. 

When you choose eternal life with faith 
in God and have no fear. He will sustain you. 
You cannot have health until you have filled 
your heart with love. You cannot have 
prosperity until you have fulfilled the law of 
service. The law of prosperity is fulfilled 
through unselfishness. . Prosperity is not ma- 
terial; it is real. Unselfishness is the foun- 
dation of the law of service ; through the law of 
service we come into contact with the law of 
compensation. The physical man has no need 
that the inner and the mental man cannot sup- 
ply when the mental man is in harmony with 
God and truth; when the mental man is out 
of harmony with God and truth, he becomes 
chaos. 

How pitiful it is that men are so ignorant 
as to be selfish! But when man comes to 
realize that he has a mission to fulfill, he will 
become sincere and cease to be selfish; and 



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when he has fulfilled that mission, or has 
fulfilled that which he has held as his mis- 
sion, then will he realize that his mission 
was only needed as a preparation for a higher 
mission and service. The great mission of 
mankind is to follow the example of Christ, 
personally going about and doing good. A man 
must become dissatisfied with a wage of two 
dollars a day before he will try to earn three 
dollars a day; a man must become dissatisfied 
with that selfish mental attitude which brings 
confusion and turmoil before he will try to 
reach that unselfish attitude which brings 
hope and a satisfied realization that he is 
becoming a servant of men. 

When a man begins to desire different 
things, he will seek to attain them, either by 
ignorant methods or by making himself more 
serviceable. He who attempts to attain by 
sharp mental practices has already failed, 
while he who attempts to attain by rendering 
a greater service has reached success. Sick- 
ness and disorder are sometimes caused by 
a latent, silent, selfish desire in the subcon- 



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scious mmd, which is unsatisfied and which 
is reflected in the physical health. Some- 
times by analyzing our dreams we may as- 
certain what that selfish desire is; when we 
discover what it is, we may reject it and it 
will leave us. 

Some people allow their condition of 
health to worry them, when in fact they are 
worrying their condition of health ; others al- 
low their business to worry them, when in 
fact they are worrying their business. 

We must learn and comprehend that God 
has provided us an instrument able to sustain 
health, and when we comprehend this we can 
understand that He will maintain and pro- 
vide for that condition which we are able to 
attain. Seek first the kingdom of Heaven, 
harmony, and all these things will be given 
you. But remember, there is enough for all. 
Do not expect to be supplied from that which 
others have ; there is enough for you without 
taking from them. Do not try to gain for 
selfish purposes; do not use that which you 
gain, for selfish ends. Develop character, 



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honesty, sincerity, confidence, cheerful at- 
titude, endurance, faith, and steadfastness; 
these things will broaden capacity and give 
courage to think with logic. Analyze selfish- 
ness. In this way we may become a known 
quantity for a known cause that is worthy 
and righteous, and others will follow our 
example. 

Seldom do we realize the influence of sug- 
gestion and the result of our conduct upon 
the mental attitude of others. A cheerful 
individual is a tonic for a congregation. A 
kind thought is as strong a stimulant as 
food. 

No woman is beautiful who has not 
learned to wear a smile, and the woman who 
can always smile will soon become beautiful 
and happy. 

The true conception of the physical is 
objective. When we realize that everything 
that has been created in the objective has 
been made for man's use, and learn how to 
use it for the glory of God, we will then be- 
come spiritualized in our mental conscious- 



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ness and be in harmony with the law of truth. 

To overcome means to learn that all 
things were created for man's use, for the 
glory of God, and that all things in their true 
conception have objective manifestation; but 
we must learn their use and purpose, and 
cease to use them without purpose and cease 
to fear injury from that which God has 
created, when used with proper purpose. 
Improper use of anything brings destruction. 
The injury you may receive from eating a 
thing does not occur because of any power 
within the thing itself to injure you, but be- 
cause you have used it improperly, or be- 
cause of your thought of its effect, or your 
inability to overcome the universal belief in 
its power to injure. 

It was not the fruit in the Garden of 
Eden that caused the fall of Adam, but it 
was the improper use to which Adam put it — 
eating contrary to God's command; and the 
breaking of this commandment at the solici- 
tation of error caused Adam to fall from a 
spiritual consciousness to the realm of ig- 
norant mind or confusion. 



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Men are eating the forbidden fruit in the 
Garden of Eden every day of their lives, and 
the mark of destruction is being stamped 
upon their consciousness because they cleave 
to error and deny truth. They follow ig- 
norant mind, and close the window of their 
souls to Divine Intelligence. 

It was the mission of Jesus of Nazareth 
to raise the bondage of mental consciousness, 
and through faith free the mortal man by 
bringing him into an understanding of Divine 
power, saving him from sin, confusion, and 
destruction. Thus he became the Savior of 
the world. Many men, through harmoniz- 
ing the laws of truth, have brought to man- 
kind great developments of knowledge and 
power. All these things indicate that man is 
regaining a spiritual consciousness. 

All things in proper use are in harmony 
with Divine Mind, but with improper use are 
out of harmony — as ignorant mind, which 
sometimes becomes so poisonous that it 
not only blights the physical body, but its 
limited thoughts and selfish attitude even 



84 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

blight the life of others. Ignorant mind 
gets us into all our troubles, and it cannot 
get us out of our troubles ; but God can bring 
us out of ignorance if we will recognize Divine 
Mind, and that the source of every reality 
rests it] Divine Intelligence, and that there is 
no other to whom we can go and receive 
eternal support. Thus we need knowledge. 

Taking medicine is not a process of 
curing, but only giving Nature an opportuni- 
ty to cure or to work. The medical question 
is a matter of metabolic chemistry. If you 
pour two fluids together of opposite natures, 
there is Divine Intelligence present and there 
is chemical action ; and if you put your hand 
in some of those fluids, they will burn it up, 
because you violate God's law. 

When a person is sick, it is evident that 
he is not manifesting properly, and the indi- 
vidual, both mentally and physically, has 
become sluggish. By taking certain mixtures 
into the body, chemical action takes place, 
and the system is cleaned and stimulated to 
action, because it is necessary to eliminate 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 85 

by natural process, and the conditions 
which have caused sluggishness are removed, 
and natural progress is left unobstructed. 

Metabolic chemistry can be produced in 
the human system, not only by injecting 
fluids, but by mental attitude and right 
thinking. For instance, fear and anger gen- 
erate poison, while hope and cheer neutralize 
poison, and when the process of mental heal- 
ing or Divine healing takes place, the erro- 
neous condition must be neutralized, casting 
out fear and error and establishing faith and 
truth, so that Nature can work. 

Sometimes, however, the physical condi- 
tion becomes so concrete and out of line that 
the individual by mental attitude is unable 
to produce immediate stimulation, in which 
case physical chemical action may be used as 
a temporary aid until fear is cast out and 
faith renewed. 

A thing that repairs the physical is tem- 
porary because the physical is temporary. 
''Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words 
without knowledge f 



86 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

To acquire knowledge and be able to im- 
part it to others is the achievement of a life- 
time. God said, ''Let there he light y'' and 
there was light. Light and darkness, knowl- 
edge and ignorance, are ever before us. 

Never become too old to learn; when you 
do, you cease to be useful. Age is only rela- 
tive and experience comparative. The pur- 
pose of life is to bring yourself into har- 
mony with truth. 

Education is a process of elimination, 
not a process of addition; it is discovering 
truth and eliminating error. Righteousness 
is more than being good; it is acquiring 
power. Each step of achievement broadens 
the ability and opens the path. 

There are five mental senses which must 
co-operate with the five so-called "physical" 
senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, 
and smelling. These mental senses are really 
the foundation for the physical manifestation 
of the physical senses. The first is con- 
sciousness , which gives us the sense of ex- 
istence. Consciousness is a sense which ex- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 87 

ists separate and apart from the physical 
body; it manifests the proof of this in dreams. 
The existence in dreams is just as actual as 
that of the wakeful stage. Dreams are some- 
times coincidental. Consciousness when de- 
veloped is that sense which gives us a knowl- 
edge of individual life without physical con- 
tact, although consciousness cannot manifest 
on the physical plane except through the 
physical senses. 

The second mental sense is intelligence. 
Intelligence is that faculty which gives, us 
perception and conception. Intelligence is 
the first blossom of consciousness, and a force 
and power that directs consciousness towards 
a certain object. Intelligence is always indi- 
vidual ; it is a mark of individuality — and per- 
sonality. Nowhere in the universe will intel- 
ligence be found except where individuality 
is present. It is intelligence that teaches us 
that there is a Creator of the universe and 
that this Creator is capable of individual 
conception, and is a necessary faculty in or- 
der that you and I may enjoy individuality. 



8S SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

The third mental sense is action — the 
sense, faculty, and power that gives us the 
ability to move with direction, and which is 
the mark of personality. Action gives us 
the power to control opinion and thought. 
When we commence to realize that thoughts 
are individual things, we have some concep- 
tion of the power of action. Action gives us 
self-reliance, self-control, motion, force, and 
endurance. 

The fourth mental sense is the sense of 
chaiity. Charity is_ the mark of consid- 
eration for others. It contains the law 
of comparison, the law of love, and the law of 
sacrifice. Comparison gives us judgment, 
distance, height, weight, size, time, color, 
circumference. Without the sense of charity 
we could not conceive of aught outside of 
ourselves ; we could not recognize the law of 
service, neither would we be able to under- 
stand the measurement of success. Hope, 
faith, charity; but the greatest of these is 
charity. Charity is the absence of selfishness. 

The fifth mental sense is silence, gil^nc^ 



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is the mark of unselfishness ; unselfishness is 
the stepping-stone to unfoldment, the thresh- 
old of sacrifice, the doorway of service, the 
key-stone to understanding, and the secret 
of wisdom. When we are able to silence 
ourselves and our selfish desires, we can 
serve others; when we begin to serve others, 
we become a known quantity for a worthy 
cause. 

Thus consciousness gives us existence, in- 
telligence gives us individuality, action gives 
us personality, charity gives us consideration, 
and silence makes us unselfish. 

These things are the foundation of knowl- 
edge, understanding, and wisdom. 

''He that overcometh shall inherit all things, 
and I will he his God and he shall he my son.'' 

Knowledge is to understand the law of 
demonstration; wisdom is the application of 
knowledge. When a thought is applied with 
understanding, the result will be certain; it 
cannot be applied without understanding. 
Experience is the result of the proper appli- 
cation of knowledge. An improper applica- 



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tion of a thing is a loss. To know that we 
have failed does not assure the knowledge of 
truth. To see that we have been truly suc- 
cessful demonstrates that we have applied 
with understanding and can claim wisdom. 
Experience increases the ability to retain, 
apply, and broaden the view, creating the 
possibility of greater accomplishments. 

The value of knowledge is to enable us to 
fulfill our mission in life by building true 
manhood and womanhood, adding virtue to 
our community, and helping and aiding our 
fellow-men. To build true manhood and 
womanhood, we must ever stand upright for 
truth, and constantly avoid error and con- 
fusion. We cannot recognize truth without 
understanding; we cannot avoid error and 
confusion until we recognize truth. We 
must add to the virtue of our community by 
teaching only that which we know to be 
truth and by living up to that which we teach. 
We cannot teach truth until we recognize 
that which is truth. We cannot live right 
until we understand rightly. We must help 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 91 

our fellow-man by encouraging his strength 
and faith in life and pointing out the way to 
him by achievement and demonstration. We 
cannot expect our neighbor to believe in us 
when we are unable to demonstrate that 
which we presume to teach; we cannot ex- 
pect him to follow that which we do not 
demonstrate. When we fail to use our 
knowledge, we convict ourselves of idolatry. 
Idolatry is to give up the genuine and hold 
to that which is counterfeit. Knowledge is 
genuine. When we give up knowledge and 
do that which we know is not in harmony 
with truth, we worship the unknown god of 
confusion. We must prove that we know 
by bringing ourselves into harmony with all 
truth, equalizing our powers, and attaining 
results in the things we undertake to do. 

The instruments with which we must ap- 
ply our knowledge are ability, reliability, ac- 
tion, and endurance. Ability brings us the 
knowledge of our powers and the knowledge 
of the needs of those whom we undertake to 
serve. Reliability brings us confidence, sin- 



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cerity, and self-reliance, and causes us to be 
trustworthy with our mission. Action rna- 
bles us to move ever upward, onward, and 
outward towards the goal of service, unself- 
ishness, and perfection. Endurance forti- 
fies us against censure, encourages us in ap- 
parent failure, protects us against misplaced 
confidence, gives us strength, and teaches us 
to be steadfast. But we must use our knowl- 
edge for a good purpose. 

Heat, moisture, air, and earth, when 
properly applied, sprout the seed and de- 
velop the life of the plant, while these same 
things bring destruction when misdirected 
and improperly applied. Knowledge is the 
seed, results are the fruits. We are taught 
that: ''A sower went out to sow his seed; and 
as e sowed, some fell by the wayside, and it 
was trodden down, and the fowls of the air de- 
voured it. And some fell upon a rock, and as 
soon as it was sprung up it withered away, 
because it la:ked moisture. And some fell 
among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it, 
and choked it. And other fell on good ground, 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 93 

and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold,'^ 
Faith without works is dead; knowledge 
without action is dead. ''To him that over- 
Cometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, 
and will give him a white stone, and in the stone 
a new name written, which no man knoweth 
saving he that receiveth it,'' To gain the 
whole world and lose your soul is grief; to 
gain all knowledge and fail to serve is death. 
Your knowledge is of no value to the world 
unless it renders a service to mankind and 
lays a foundation upon which better man- 
hood and womanhood may be builded. 

This service depends upon your ability 
to teach mankind to apply knowledge to 
themselves and build true manhood and wo- 
manhood. Your success in service depends 
upon keeping yourself cleansed from error 
and in harmony with truth. The standard- 
bearer of truth, to advance his cause, must 
work in harmony and uniformity, co-oper- 
ating, with his fellow-men, keeping in ad- 
vance of the world. 

Will is a factor in mental development. 



94 SPIRITUAL SCIENCK. 

A strong will is master of the physical man ; 
the right will is director of the mentaj man; 
but the perfect will is the support of the 
soul. Our minds always act, either under our 
direction or at random. The scientific de- 
velopment of the mental man depends upon 
how we direct and engage the activities of the 
mind. We must direct the actions of the mind 
through will and attentive interest, to con- 
trol its growth and manifestations in health 
and right thinking. The world is filled with 
wrong ideas, because men accept false pre- 
mises failing to apply attentive interest. 
We must utilize our endowment of mental 
power, overcome environment, and train our- 
selves by causing our minds to act under our 
direction and control. 

Mind power is composed of activities. 
When these actions of mind are harmonic, 
specific results are attained. If this action is 
connected with the spiritual mind, or soul 
power, we have unfolded the Divine power 
within, and perfect co-operation is estab- 
lished. We must not measure our success 



SPIRITUAIy SCIENCE. 95 

from experiences of failure. Our failures 
do not disprove success. One demonstration 
is complete proof of the law of truth. The 
mind, under our control, builds and is our 
instrument for manifestation. If we are in 
harmony with truth, these manifestations 
are in harmony with truth, and health, hap- 
piness, and prosperity are our success. The 
big things in life come to us through prop- 
erly educating our inner selves — the sub- 
conscious mind, the co-partner of the soul. 

Each individual is a part of the i nive :se 
and must do his part in the un'verse Few 
realize the responsibility of individuality^ 
What we do not think measures our progress 
as much as thoughts we do think. Thoughts 
not in harmony with truth retard us. The 
highest manifestation of the mental man is 
right thinking. Right thought is based on 
right belief. Right belief must be established 
by attentive interest. We must become in- 
terested in ourselves to succeed. 



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Chapter IV. 



THE SPIRITUAI. MAN. 

Christ manifesting and demonstrating the 
eternal laws of life exemplified the mission of 
mankind. 

In the beginning God created man in His 
image and likeness — a spiritual being. In 
his first state of consciousness man was spir- 
itual, his body was not subject to error, and 
he had no knowledge of sickness, sin, and 
death. He was created a being without ex- 
perience, without a knowledge of wrong, and 
with a knowledge of right. Had man un- 
derstood the will of his Creator, he would 
still be spiritual in understanding, living 
and manifesting entirely in a spiritual con- 
sciousness. 

At first man was a spiritual being, with 
intuitive knowledge. God created him a 
free moral agent, with the power of will to 
act as he might choose. Man, exercising his 



98 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

free moral agency, and not understanding the 
laws of physical manifestation, yielded to a 
consciousness of error and, becoming subject 
to error, lost his free moral agency — yet a 
child of the perfect God. 

When man yielded to an erroneous con- 
sciousness, he then discovered his nakedness, 
and found himself not only without clothes, 
but without God. He had not used the laws 
of spirituality and had misused the laws of 
physcal manifestation. He had substituted 
ignorant mind for spiritual mind. He had 
turned his face from light toward darkness, 
and when he beheld his shadow before him, 
he beheld his own ignorance of God's natu 
ral laws. Without faith and understanding, 
man becomes as nothing; with faith and un- 
derstanding, man is a child of God. 

Thus, because of his failure to understand 
himself, man surrounded himself in dark- 
ness, with mystery, confusion, and disorder. 
When God called him in the Garden of Para- 
dise, he was unable to answer, and his first 
thought in ignorant consciousness or Hmited 



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mind demonstrated fear, which is the first 
expression of misconception. He had not 
understood God — he lacked faith. When 
Cain answered God by asking if he should be 
his brother's keeper, he committed the sec- 
ond error against himself by reflecting self- 
ishness. When a man determines in his own 
mind and consciousness that he is not his 
brother's keeper, he has taken the second step 
away from spirituality, away from God, and 
committed the second error of ignorant mind. 

Thus we find in the history of man and 
his relation with his Creator that for many 
centuries he has been bound in darkness, un- 
able to co^-ceive the true idea of spiritual man 
and spirituality. 

With the hope of bringing man back to 
the consciousness of spirituality, and ena- 
bling him to recognize the laws surrounding 
and supporting the spiritual man, God sent 
the angels to mankind to minister unto him, 
but they had never experienced material laws 
nor known of the laws of mental nian; they 
also were like the first man — without ex- 



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perience and given the power of free moral 
agency. 

Again, we find within them that history- 
repeated itself, and they ''became as men,'' 
and partook of the forbidden fruit. They 
tempted themselves and yielded to the pas- 
sion of sensuous and ignorant mind. These 
angels who were sent as saviors of the world, 
when they submitted to the temptation of 
erroneous mind, thereby disqualified them- 
selves to fulfill the mission and do the work 
which they were sent into the world to per- 
form, because they failed to demonstrate. 
The result was that man was yet in ignor- 
ance, surrounded by confusion and disorder 
and unredeemed from the forbidden sin, and 
both men and angels were found without 
God. 

Thus men and angels had fallen from a 
spiritual state of consciousness into a state of 
consciousness which was out of harmony with 
the laws of spirituality and the will of Divine 
Intelligence. They had failed to conceive 
their mission and purpose in life. They had 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. loi 

not rebelled against God, but had failed to 
comprehend God. Both men and angels were 
in error. 

Therefore, we find that the history of 
mankind and the things he thought and did 
is filled with contradiction, turmoil, confu- 
sion, fear, selfishness, and error, even down 
to the time of Jesus of Nazareth. 

The spiritual man is our perfect inherit- 
ance. Man is a physical, mental, and spir- 
itual being. These three counterparts must 
be equally balanced in older that man may 
be able to do his work. The physical, men- 
tal, and spiritual attributes may be likened 
unto a camera resting upon a tripod. The 
three points of the tripod must be perfectly 
secure and properly balanced in order that 
the camera may be focused; otherwise you 
do not obtain perfect results. Just so must 
the physical, mental, and spiritual man be 
properly balanced and equally developed, so 
that the man can be focused and become able 
to realize his mission and perform his work. 

Many individuals cannot find a satisfac- 



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tory explanation of the history of man as 
recorded in Divine Writ, because of the con- 
flict and seemingly human emotion therein re- 
corded. But when one realizes that this is the 
history of the sayings, doings, and thoughts 
of men and angels who had not fully compre- 
hended and realized the greatness, allness, 
and completeness of Divine Intelligence, and 
who had forgotten that they were their broth- 
ers' keepers, as well as a message from God, it 
is not difficult to account for the element of 
human emotion and erroneous judgment so 
frequently found in the Old Testament. 
Nevertheless, this condition does not detract 
from the value of this Divine History and 
God's message to man through the lives of 
men. It is the history of men and angels 
and their effort to work out their salvation 
and regain a spiritual consciousness without 
the correct and righteous conception of God 
as the Divine Intelligence of the universe — 
omnipresent, omniscient, and eternal. 

After mankind had for four thousand 
years attempted to work out its own salva- 



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tion and fegain the spiritual consciousness, 
that man should have a I'iving example of 
righteousness, and because man had failed, 
and angels and prophets had failed to fully 
comprehend the mission of man in the world, 
Jesus of Nazareth came into the world as a 
living example, with a full knowledge of the 
spiritual laws and the ability to demonstrate 
over ignorant mind and false concept of law, 
and demonstrate Divine Mind and natural 
law before the world He made the demon- 
stration to release the consciousness of man- 
kind, which had been bound by a material 
conception of God. He also demonstrated, 
explained, and expounded the principles to 
be applied by mankind to bring us into a 
spiritual consciousness and release us from 
the grip of error or ignorant mind, misun- 
derstanding, disorder, and sin. 

Each individual, with faith and under- 
standing, must make his own demonstration. 
The purpose of Christ's life and His demon- 
stration was to show mankind the possibil- 
ity of demonstration over ignorance of law, 



104 Spiritual science. 

therefore each mortal man must make the 
Christ demonstration in order to entirely 
awaken the spiritual consciousness within 
himself. Man's real life does not begin until 
he has awakened his spiritual consciousness 
through a knowledge of the Christ demon- 
stration. 

When the spiritual consciousness is awak- 
ened, it will claim its full inheritance. The 
full inheritance of the spiritual man is under- 
standing, faith and wisdom, thought and ac- 
tion, health and endurance. When the spir- 
itual man is brought into consciousness, man 
has been born again; he has been baptized 
in the Holy Ghost; he is a perfect child of 
God. The spiritual man is en rapport with 
God. 

The law of life is the direct reflection of 
Divine Intelligence. The law of physical 
structure is the phenomena of God's reflec- 
tion of life through Nature. In man, the 
mental man in perfect operation is the direct 
reflection of the spiritual man. The phys- 
ical man is the phenomena of mind The 



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spiritual man cannot reflect perfectly in this 
plane of consciousness except through a per- 
fect mental and physical man. 

The phenomena of spiritual man are un- 
derstanding, faith, wisdom — Light; the phe- 
nomena of the mental man are charity, 
thought, will — Love; the phenomena of the 
physical man are form, structure, substance 
— Life. The perfect man retains his spiritual, 
mental, and physical consciousness through- 
out all eternity. Wisdom — Light, thought — 
L<97;^, existence — Life, and balance — Law, are 
the eternity of man. Eternal existence de- 
pends upon the continuous harmonious appli- 
cation of law in the trinity of man. Life, Love, 
Light, and Law are the quaternion of man. 

When spiritual consciousness is reached, 
our understanding is open to all truth. We 
then have been baptized in water, fire, and 
the Holy Ghost. Water is the symbol of life; 
fire is the symbol of purity; the Holy Ghost 
is the symbol of wisdom, the Spirit of wis- 
dom and understanding direct from God our 
Creator. 



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When we have reached this development, 
we then recognize our source; our mission, 
and its appUcation and reward as a part of 
the law of life. We then need no further tes- 
timony to comprehend that we are indeed 
spiritual beings in the image and likeness of 
God, co-equal with Him in eternal life, the 
sons and daughters of God, eternally sub- 
ject and obedient to His will, and co-equal 
with Him in all things except Divine power, 
which in us rests in our faith and obedience 
to Divine IntelHgence — our Creator, the 
God of the universe. 

When we fully recognize our source and 
dependency upon God, we recognize the 
source and dependency of all things. It is 
then that we recognize our mission and the 
true purpose of our creation; and we can 
have no rest until our mission is fulfilled and 
we can know that our work is well done, and 
God can commend us as good and faithful 
servants, ready to enter into the joys of our 
reward. 

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sincere in that which we do, realizing that 
we are indeed doing a great work, even 
though we are performing the humblest duty 
to our Creator. We have confidence in our 
Creator and in our fellow-men, because we 
realize that we are upon the right road to 
duty. 

We have endurance because we love our 
work. We are steadfast because we realize 
the greatness of our reward. Our faith is 
secure because we are able to demonstrate 
that which it is necessary to do in order that 
we may complete our mission and retain our 
full reward. 

When we become able to demonstrate the 
law of life, we begin to recognize God within 
ourselves; when we recognize God within 
ourse' ves — that He demonstrates within 
us — we can then realize that God can dem- 
onstrate without — through our conscious- 
ness and understanding, and our mental at- 
titude is open to a full realization and compre- 
hension of the omniscient, omnipresent, om- 
nipotent intelligence of the Creator of the 



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universe, which we are pleased to call God. 

When we begin to understand God, we 
begin to understand ourselves as the children 
of God, created in His image and likeness. 
It is then we realize what David meant when 
he said: ''The Lord is my shepherd; I shall 
not want,'' There is enough in the universe 
for each of His children. He can give each all 
there is and have still remaining all things 
for mankind. Just as we can teach others 
and yet have our knowledge left, so can 
God giye to us wisdom, understanding, faith, 
purity, thought, prosperity, and health, and 
yet have all for others. 

We cannot remove otu: limitations until 
we expand our understanding and conscious- 
ness to realize that God has no limitations. 
We must realize that the Father doeth all 
things, and that when we work in the Father, 
He works also within us. 

Every manifestation of truth within our- 
selves is the manifestation of God through 
us. When God does not manifest through 
us, we cease to reflect truth, and become as 



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an abandoned house — reflecting darkness 
and manifesting error, misconception, and 
confusion. 

The mind cannot reflect through the body 
except the body be perfect. The spirit 
cannot reflect through the mind except 
the mind be perfect. God will only re- 
flect and manifest through our minds and 
bodies to the extent that we bring our minds 
and bodies into harmony with truth. We 
must possess an awakened spirit, a pure mind, 
and a healthy body before we can truly re- 
flect the image and likeness of God. When 
we become able to truly reflect God, we are 
able to demonstrate the laws of life as taught 
by Jesus, and are granted the privilege to 
work out our own salvation, being worthy, 
and having authority of God. We must 
work out our own salvation in the world in 
which we live and abide, because we have no 
other place in which to work. The things of 
this world are not material unless we make 
them so. Oiu: sword is faith; our shield, 
understanding. 



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God created the world and all therein for 
the use and service of mankind. The de- 
velopment and awakening of the spiritual 
man does not take away from the things of 
this world, but only makes us capable and 
worthy to demonstrate, command, and use 
the things of this world and this life for the 
glory of our Creator. 

We must not confuse substance, life. Na- 
ture, and the laws of creation with ignorance, 
confusion, and error. Matter, when placed 
in order, becomes substance and life; sub- 
stance, when thrown into confusion and er- 
ror, becomes matter — death. 

It is the mission of the spiritual man to 
bring that within us which is the conscious- 
ness of disorder, confusion, and misunder- 
standing under the law of understanding, 
truth, and order, and thus bring us into har- 
mony with the law of action, truth, and life. 

When we thoroughly reflect truth, we be- 
come the instrument of God and are given 
authority by Him when we cease to reflect 
God, we lose our authority. 



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The process of purifying the man is sim- 
ilar to purifying water by passing a current 
of electricity through it. When a man be- 
comes able to connect himself with God and 
passes pure thoughts through his mind, the 
entire man is purified. When we under- 
take to circumscribe truth, we only succeed 
in circumscribing ourselves. He who has 
awakened the spiritual man, the spiritual 
life within him, and who has purified and re- 
generated the mental man, and established 
health and order in the physical man, has 
authority; and the Father working in him 
enables him to perform miracles, heal the 
sick, and do all things as demonstrated and 
taught by Jesus. 

He who has ceased to reflect truth has 
lost his authority, ceases to reflect God, and 
is a lost soul, being in darkness; and belief 
in eternal life and faith in God alone can 
save him. 

God is Life, Love, Light, and Law. He 
is no respecter of persons. He reigns alike 
for the just and the unjust. He can not and 



112 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

will not change Divine law to aid us to ac- 
complish any individual purpose. We can 
accomplish all things when we are in harmo- 
ny with Divine law. We accomplish most 
when we work for the good of all. We must 
fulfill our mission and work out our salvation 
by uplifting those who are around us. We 
must recognize the spiritual man in those who 
are our closest associates, in order that they 
may recognize the spirituality that is within 
us, so that a prophet will not go without hon- 
or in his own land. 

When our faith and understanding are 
perfect, we can realize that God can work 
within us, and through those with whom we 
are closely associated, as well as through oth- 
ers who may come to us from afar, claiming 
much honor and authority. We cannot love 
God with all our hearts until we serve our 
neighbor as ourselves. 

The good Samaritan exemplified the law 
of service among men. Unless we are able 
to serve our closest neighbor as well as the 
stranger within our gates, we are not worthy 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 113 

to serve the world. It is better to be a serv- 
ant in the house of God than a ruler over a 
disorderly nation. Until we are able to con- 
trol our own hearts, we cannot properly teach 
others. He who is sick is a poor physician. 
He who is jnentally unbalanced is a poor 
counselor. He who is spiritually dead is a 
poor servant of his Creator. He who cannot 
demonstrate the laws of truth is a poor ex- 
ample of righteousness. The great mission of 
man is to render assistance to those less able 
than h'mself, thus aiding their faith in God. 
Only to the extent that we are able to 
bring ourselves into the light and act in har- 
mony with our spiritual consciousness will 
we be able to expand, develop, unfold, and 
grow into a broader service for the world in 
which we live. 



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Chapter V. 



DIVINITY. 

Mankind^ through faith in Christy and un- 
derstanding the Bible, the foundation of truth, 
may extend spiritual consciousness, demon- 
strate the eternal laws of life, and fulfill his 
mission to God. 

Finite mind cannot comprehend the en- 
tirety of Infinite Mind. Man, while subject 
to limitation, cannot comprehend and un- 
derstand God, Who is not subject to limita- 
tions. God is Life, Love, Light, and Law. 
We are able to know that there is life because 
of our sense of being. We are sure we exist, 
move, and think. We cannot see life, but 
its manifestations are all around and about 
us. When we plant the seed in earth, air, 
heat, and moisture, we know that it brings 
forth life. When we nourish the physical 
body, we develop strength. When we culti- 
vate the mind, it expands and grows. When 



ii6 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

we, through faith, awaken the soul, we remove 
our limitations. We cannot see life, yet we 
know that life is a requisite of our sense of 
being, our sense of existence. The realiza- 
tion that we live is an eternal inspiration. 

We know that there is love because of 
our sense of perception. Perception is a 
quick realization of truth without conscious 
thought or reasoning. Perception, through 
iaith, realizes that life, through love, mani- 
fests every need we have. lyOve has provided 
us with every requirement of life. Love has 
surrounded us with all the beauties of the 
universe. The power of love provides for 
all. Perception realizes that love is our pro- 
vider. It is beautiful to know that love has 
brought us every need out of the manifesta- 
tion of life. 

We know that there is light because of 
our sense of conception. Conception is the 
beginning of understanding. When we re- 
alize that life maintains, that love provides, 
we conceive that wisdom is the foundation of 
our existence and the provision for its con- 



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tinuation. Our sense of conception brings 
to us the messages of wisdom. 

We know that there is law because of our 
sense of balance, our sense of being, our sense 
of perception. Our sense of conception must 
be balanced with judgment. The law of life, 
the law of love, and the law of light are all 
balanced by judgment. Thus we compre- 
hend and begin to understand that there is a 
uniform, well-balanced plan underlying our 
sense of being, our sense of perception, and 
our sense of conception, and that this plan is 
balanced thoroughly by the law of justice. 

And we begin to comprehend and realize 
that there is a plan behind creation. A plan 
is the product of intelligence; intelligence is 
the mark of individuality. Thus we realize 
that this plan of creation lodges in individual 
intelligence. This individual intelligence, in 
whose conception and consciousness is the 
plan of creation, the plan of life, the plan of 
love, the plan of wisdom, and the plan of 
law, and whose consciousness is without lim- 
itations, is that individual intelligence, per- 



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son, and principle which we call *' Divine 
Mind'' — Divinity or God. 

We cannot comprehend God within our 
mental or physical consciousness, but when 
our soul is awakened we can hear His eternal 
call, and we can realize that He is omni- 
potent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Our 
faith in Him and our obedience to His will 
is the one power which will remove our 
limitations, remove our misconception, and 
establish our understanding, with a full re- 
alization of what is included when we say 
that ''God is Life, God is Love, God is Light, 
and God is Law/' 

We have always been taught to believe 
that God is a triune being, consisting of 
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; 
but when our consciousness unfolds to a re- 
alization of the truth about God, we realize 
that God is also Law — balance. The Fath- 
erhood is the Life principle, the law of exist- 
ence, and gives us the sense of being. The 
Son is the Love principle — sacrifice — and 
gives us the sense of perception. The Holy 



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Ghost is the Light principle — understand- 
ing — and gives us the sense of conception. 
These three appUcations bring the Law prin- 
ciple, intelligence and individuality, give us 
the sense of balance, and remove our limita- 
tions, bringing that understanding described 
by Jesus when He said: 'I am in my Father, 
and ye in me, and I in you.'' 

It is only by the application of Life, 
Love, Light, and Law that we can attain 
wisdom and comprehend the fullness and 
allness of God. When we begin to compre- 
hend God, we have a new consciousness and 
see things in their true light. Truth becomes 
ours. When we come into possession of the 
law of truth, we cease to reflect darkness, be- 
cause we realize that light is all around and 
about us. God does not change the laws of 
things that we may have this state of con- 
sciousness and understanding, but we must 
change ourselves to realize that God is always 
at our command when we are subject and 
obedient to His will. 

When we learn to say, *'Our Father who 



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art in Heaven," with faith and understand- 
ing, we can realize that Divinity and Divine 
IntelUgence is our sole protector. 

It requires intelligence to recognize in- 
telligence. The foolish man says in his 
heart, ''There is no God." It requires intel- 
ligence to recognize God. No man can rec- 
ognize God until his own soul has given 
bloom. As a rose cannot bloom unless it is 
surrounded by proper elements and condi- 
tions, so a soul cannot bloom until it has a 
healthy and clean body, a thoughtful and 
balanced mind, and an obedient and loving 
sj)irit, manifesting the law of unfoldment 
through faith and action. 

Thought is the first form of communica- 
tion between man and God. When we have 
learned the power of thought, we have un- 
locked the mysteries of God. God is will, 
wisdom, love, and balance, manifesting Life, 
Love, Light, and Law. God is intelligence, 
principle, and person. God could not cre- 
ate man with intelligence except He had 
intelligence. Intelligence cannot create non- 



vSPlRlTUAL SCIENCE. 121 

intelligence ; non-intelligence cannot create 
intelligence. God is the spirit, sustaining a 
spiritual world. Man is spiritual, manifest- 
:ng in the image and likeness of God. 

When truth becomes ours, our mental at- 
titude and direction changes, and as a man 
who is lost, we must face about from the 
path of fear, selfishness, and folly to the path 
of faith, duty, and service. No man or creed 
has a monopoly on truth; no man or creed 
has exceptional favor with Divi<ne Intelli- 
gence. We must all serve under the same 
law; we must all serve one and the same God. 

Weed^s and thistles may grow for a while, 
but are not preserved with the harvest. 
Disobedience may seem to prosper, but God 
has no care for unrighteousness. ''For what 
shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole 
world, and lose his own soulV When we 
face the light — understanding — our shadow 
falls behind us and our duty lies clear be- 
fore us. 

When the hand is placed at the plow, we 
must not turn back. The fruit of knowledge 



122 SPIRITUAL SCIENCI?. 

is imparting truth to others. He who learns 
to serve in an humble way is broadened for a 
greater work. The fruit of wisdom is dem- 
onstrating so that our fellow-men will be 
glorified in us, and we in them, and all in 
Him. The service we render otir fellow-men 
is the test of our faith in God. 

God is a part of the ordinary things in the 
world as much as He is a part of the wonder- 
ful things of life. When we can demonstrate 
in harmony with the laws of life within our- 
selves and within our ordinary duties, we 
have demonstrated that He is a part of all 
the realities of life. 

When every individual saves his own soul 
through God's plan, all will be saved. The 
salvation of the world must include the sal- 
vation of society and business from selfish- 
ness, cruelty, and vulgarity. All things 
created have a useful purpose. All the re- 
quirements and needs of mankind can be 
supplied in harmony with Divine Law. 

He who is fulfilling his mission and service 
in the world, though his work may seem 



SPIRITUAL vSClENCE. 123 

humble in the eyes of men, will be provided 
with every requirement to do his work. 

When man comprehends Divinity as the 
reality of life, then he will permit the con- 
sciousness of good to permeate his every ac- 
tion and line of conduct. He will not resist 
evil, but overcome evil with good. 

He who has succeeded in bringing truth 
into the most humble occupation has estab- 
lished a worthy profession. He who realizes 
that Divinity is the greatest of all things 
leaves the mark of virtue wherever he goes. 
The true attitude of life impregnates all 
things with virtue and goodness; brings or- 
der out of chaos ; brings light out of darkness 
and establishes truth in the midst of mis- 
conception and error. 

He who has discovered the law of truth 
recognizes Divine Intelligence in every re- 
flection of Nature. To bring harmony into 
all things is the application of the law of 
balance. ''But rather seek ye the kingdom of 
God: cLud all these things shall he added unto 
you^ 



124 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

When we realize that Divine Intelligence 
is manifesting eternally around and about us, 
then we know that Heaven is here now and 
forever. He who cannot find harmony in 
the laws of this world cannot find harmony 
hereafter. To recognize God in the law of 
life is to recognize Divine Intelligence in the 
plan of the universe. To believe that Divine 
Intelligence, Eternal Wisdom, can do more 
for us to-morrow than He can to-day is to 
deny Divine authority and power. 

The eternal now is the hour of our being. 
The millennium is here if we only recognize 
it. We must be the child of God to-day to 
be the child of God to-morrow. There is no 
consolation in an eternal future for him who 
cannot grasp the existence of eternal truth 
now and obtain immediate happiness, health, 
and prosperity. Practice makes perfect. 
He who would command the reward of eter- 
nal life must command through obedience, 
understanding, and wisdom. 



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Chapte:r VI. 



REGENERATION. 

Cultivating spiritual understanding to re- 
flecty manifest, and demonstrate the eternal Di- 
iiine Principle is the atonement for all mankind 
in the physical, astral, or spiritual body. 

How can we know God unless we know 
His Son^ There is no other name under 
Heaven through which man can be saved. 
When we can reach Christ, we can reach the 
Father; when we reach the Father, all things 
are ours. When we cannot reach Christ, 
we are lost. We can reach Christ through 
faith and obedience to His law — truth. 
Christ is the only paymaster for service. 
He has authority. When we work in His 
vineyard, we will receive pay; when we do 
not work in His vineyard, our labor is lost. 
Our vineyard is the world, because we have 
no other place in which to work. 

The work of regeneration is a work of 



126 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

restoration. The problem of regeneration 
and restoration is the one great problem to 
be solved by each individual man. Regen- 
eration is individual atonement. 

We are taught that in the beginning God 
created Adam a spiritual beirig in the image 
and likeness of his Creator. Adam, was a 
free moral agent, and without experience, and 
failed to comprehend God and failed to com- 
prehend obedience to His will. The work of 
regeneration is removing the lack of under- 
standing of God from ourselves the re- 
storing truth within our consciousness. In 
this work there are three important funda- 
mental principles which must be considered. 
The work of regeneration must be physical, 
mental, and spiritual. This is a work of ser- 
vice. 

The physical man must be restored to 
health; the mental man must return to 
truth; the spiritual man must revive faith 
in eternal life. We must remember that 
health is not restored by a denial of sickness. 
It is not the denial of sickness that cures dis- 
ease, but the realization that all is life and 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 127 

life is all. To think of the perfection of God 
is to establish the light of truth within our- 
selves. We must remember that it is not 
the denial of sin that returns truth to our 
mental consciousness, but the realization that 
it is within us to overcome sin, which has no 
power against truth. We must remember 
that it is not the denial of death that revives 
us into eternal life, but a knowing faith that 
life is eternal. Man becomes subject to sick- 
ness, sin, and death through error and mis- 
conception of life. All mankind may be re- 
stored to health and released from sickness, 
sin, and death through an understanding of 
the teachings and demonstt^ations of Jesus. 
It was His mission in life to teach men the 
wky of salvation and to demonstrate the law 
of eternal life. He is the one and only au- 
thorized example. Regeneration can only 
come through following His footsteps. At 
the early age of twelve years He realized the 
importance of His Father's business. That 
business is to teach men the way of salva- 
tion. We are admonished through Him not 



128 SPIRITUAL vSCIENCE. 

to resist evil, but to overcome evil with good. 
To deny sin and sickness is to resist evil; to 
affirm health and truth is to overcome evil 
with good. 

If you are in a dark room, it will do no 
good to d^ny the darkniess; but when you 
open the door and let the sunlight in, it so 
fills the room with light that there is no dark- 
ness to deny. 

It is foolish to battle against that which 
has no power. It is wisdom to realize and 
understand that truth has all power. We 
must worship at the shrine of truth only. 
To understand God's law and live in harmony 
therewith, is the religion of truth. ''Where- 
fore by their fruits ye shall know them.'' 

Man is an attribute of God, a part of God. 
His province is to manifest the spirit of 
God with obedience to His will. The spirit 
of God manifests through man just as the 
sunlight manifests through life. The plant 
could not grow without sunlight. Man can- 
not manifest without God. 

Man commands all forms of life below 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 129 

him. To manifest the perfect man, he must 
overcome all things and develop the pure 
man. Christ performed many miracles and 
made many demonstrations to convince man- 
kind that there is a spiritual law and a spirit- 
ual power behind that which we behold as 
natural law. 

In order that He might enable mankind 
to gain eternal life, He exemplified the prin- 
ciples of life, by personally going about and 
doing good; and these principles must be 
applied in order that we may gain life in 
all its fullness. This is the process of re- 
generation. 

To know the law of spirituality, and de- 
velop and live within it, is the only way to 
salvation. 

Failing to live up to our intelligence is 
idolatry — giving up the real for the unreal. 
A true man is satisfied with nothing less than 
truth, and is willing to work out his own 
salvation through sacrifice, knowing that 
God is love, and rewards service in double 
measiure. 



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We must find and perform our work be- 
fore we can expect a reward for our service; 
but we cannot follow the path of God with 
one foot and the path of error with the other. 
It matters not what our neighbors may do; 
each individual must work oiit his own 
salvation. 

Sacrifice is the only highway to success. 
Jesus did not stop because He was criticised. 
He who permits criticism to stand between 
himself and salvation has lost the battle be- 
fore he has begun. Regeneration is attained 
through the realization that sickness, sin, and 
death have no power against righteousness. 

While Faith and Hope are our founda- 
tion of life, both here and hereafter, we can- 
not attain either, here or hereafter, until we 
desire, and we cannot attain with desire 
unless we are in harmony and obedient to 
God's law. Understanding corrects our de- 
sire. God's law is the law of truth. Truth 
is always in harmony with truth; truth is 
ways in harmony with understanding; un- 
derstanding is the sole possessor of truth. 



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''And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall 
make you free.'' We have the opportunity 
to attain an understanding of truth in this 
plane of consciousness, and thereby correct 
our desires and broaden our possibility of 
unfoldment for expansion and growth. 
Whether we have this opportunity of service 
and salvation, after we have passed beyond 
the physical body, depends on whether or 
not we shall have attained sufficient faith 
in God during this life to sustain us in our 
passage through the valley of death. This 
we may be afforded the opportunity of obtain- 
ing truth, having failed to comprehend our 
opportunity within this life. 

He who shall attain the correct desire for 
eternal life, measured by the true under- 
standing of Divine Writ and Divine Law, 
and who shall faithfully apply these things 
in his daily life among men, shall attain the 
most among those who cease to be visibly 
mortal. 

We must realize that the invisible laws 
of life are the most powerful. We cannot 



132 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

see, feel, touch, or smell the law of gravita- 
tion, yet we can realize that all physical 
structure depends upon its application and 
operation. Nothing would remain visible 
to the physical sight of man should it cease 
to operate. Yet we are inclined to accept 
that which we see with the visible eye as the 
foundation of physical structure, when in 
fact the Divine law of gravitation lies behind 
and supports these things. 

The law of desire is just as potent and 
fundamental in relation to things to be at- 
tained by mankind as is the law of gravita- 
tion to physical structure. Divine Intelli- 
gence is the author of both. 

We must also realize that true desire 
cannot be selfish. We have been taught by 
one of authority that Satan cannot drive 
out Satan; that when a kingdom is divided 
against itself, it cannot stand. 

Desire for ourselves that does not include 
a desire for our fellow -men is not in harmony 
with Divine Law or the will of our Creator. 
Seed must be sown under proper conditions 



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to bring forth fruit. Desire and thought 
must be in harmony with faith arid truth to 
attain results. That evil thoughts and de- 
sires find their own level was proven when Je- 
sus cast the evil spirits into the swine, which 
rushed forth to self-destruction. Individuals 
who destroy or neglect their own life are ex- 
amples of this lesson and parable. It is only 
he who can still the storm of evil thoughts 
and evil desires who can maintain truth 
until the perfect day. The fact that the 
Nazarene did not perform miracles in 
His own household to the same extent as He 
did in the houses of foreigners and strang- 
ers, proves that the union of faith and de- 
sire is the most potent factor in bringing us 
into harmony with Divine Law. 

When we are able to plant the law of 
proper desire within our subconscious mind, 
it will sprout, grow, and bear fruit within 
our realization. This lesson is taught in the 
parable of the man who scatters seed on 
the ground, and then sleeps by night and 
arises by day while the seed is shooting up 



134 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

and growing — he knows not how. The 
ground bears the crop of itself: first the 
blade, then the ear, and then the full grain 
in the ear. But as soon as the crop is ready, 
immediately he puts in the sickle, because 
the harvest has come. 

Mental attitude and proper desire are the 
seed; our subconscious mind, the receptacle 
of man's soul, is the ground. When he de- 
sire to attain God's law is sown in the sub- 
conscious mind, the unfoldment, broadening, 
expansion, and growth of our individuality 
is beyond our conception and knowledge, and 
the unlimited growth of this attitude and 
desire in the subconscious mind is illustrated 
by the parable of the mustard seed. Many 
shall be protected by its branches. 

Though desire at the beginning be small; 
though hope may be vague looking to the far 
distance; though faith may be weak — yet, if 
we have a little of right desire, something 
of hope, and the smallest vestige of faith in 
God, our Creator, the Divine Intelligence 
Who rules and controls the universe, then 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 135 

our desire, our hope, and our faith will grow 
and become so large and so great as to 
take in the universe and include our fellow- 
men. We will then reach out to protect, 
help, aid, and assist those who are in constant 
contact with us and around and about us. 

This is the real proof of Christianity. It 
is then that we can realize that sin is errori 
that sickness is a misconception of truth, and 
that death is ceasing to realize the actuality 
of Divine Intelligence as our constant guard 
and protector throughout time and eternity. 

Regeneration cultivates a spirit of rever- 
ence and humbleness, with love and consid- 
eration for our fellow-men. Be gentle and 
merciful, desiring knowledge and righteous- 
ness, thinking pure and holy thoughts, en- 
couraging peace and prosperity among men, 
and standing firmly against criticism, with 
the knowledge that righteousness and truth 
must prevail. The practice and application 
of these principles within ourselves cause 
our light to shine before the world, that they 
may see our good deeds ; and the world, judg- 



136 SPIRITUAI, SCIENCE. 

ing us for righteousness' sake, although we 
judge not them or ourselves, have their faith 
revived in God because of our good work. 
Works without faith are dead. It is the 
work of righteousness within ourselves that 
brings to us regeneration. 

The regeneration of mankind is the over- 
coming of anger with thought of love and 
kindness; the elimination of impurity and 
adultery with thought of chastity and pur- 
pose ; the overcoming of divorce with thought 
of union and strength; the erasure of pro- 
fanity with thought of reverence and sin- 
cerity; the conquering of greed and covet- 
ousness through the thought and realiza- 
tion that God is no respecter of persons; the 
exercising of thought and charity for the 
glory of God, to the service of man, rather 
than to the glory of ourselves; ever holding 
within our secret consciousness the prayer 
and desire that righteousness will fulfill the 
promise of Jesus, when we pray: 

Our Father who art in Heaven, we hold 
Thy name holy. Thy kingdom come. Thy 



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will be done on earth as in Heaven. Give us 
to-day as we shall need] and restore us from 
wrong-doing as we restore to those whom we 
have wronged. Lead us out of temptation, and 
deliver us from ignorance that we may he able 
to overcome error with truth. And thine he the 
glory for ever. 

The law of regeneration does not permit 
us to serve two masters. Our consciousness 
cannot be both light and darkness. When 
we open the window of our soul to light, wis- 
dom, and understanding, there is no dark- 
ness. The law of regeneration cannot help 
us until we realize that God will furnish food 
and raiment for His workmen. He who 
works in the vineyard of righteousness with 
faith and the desire for understanding has 
a sufficiency for to-day, and to-morrow will 
provide for its needs and requirements. 

When you criticise the imperfection of 
others, you subject yourself to criticism. 
Jesus said: ''He that is without sin among 
you, let him first cast a stone at her.'' When 
you have attained perfection, you can see 



138 SPIRITUAL SCIENCK. 

nothing but perfection in others. He who 
seeks with faith will be rewarded. He who 
works with faith and understanding will re- 
ceive his share. He who acts toward others 
as they should act toward him will gain the 
love and confidence of both saint and sinner. 
Beware of him who professes perfection. 
Encourage him who struggles for the cause 
of righteousness. 'Except ye he converted 
and become as little children, ye shall not enter 
into the kingdom of Heaven. ' ' Faith does not 
await a sign from Heaven. Jesus said: ''A 
wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after 
a sign; and there shall no sign he given unto it, 
hut the sign of the prophet Jonas,'' Jesus has 
demonstrated the law of regeneration. 

Faith works out its own salvation, know- 
ing that reward is certain. Bach individual 
must keep the law of regeneration, following 
i he example and teachings of Christ and the 
prophets; realizing that everyone who fulfills 
the law of righteousness is his brother. 

God has surrounded us with every testi- 
mony of His power through His reflection in 



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the laws of Nature. He kas endowed us 
with the power to think and given us the 
jewel of faith. These are the only signs re- 
quired to keep the taw of regeneration. Let 
us remember that he who sows ho seed can 
reap no harvest. And when we think good 
thoughts and suggest good to the conscious- 
ness of ourselves and our fellow-men, thoughts 
of truth, peace, and prosperity will be the 
harvest. Our good thoughts will survive and 
bear fruit, no matter how much error may 
be around us. Righteous conduct will shine 
forth, like the sun, no matter how dense may 
be the darkness. Regeneration sacrifices ev- 
erything for truth and understanding. 

Imperfection cannot enjoy eternal life. 
Jesus said: * Again, the kingdom of Heaven is 
like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and 
gathered of every kind; which, when it was full, 
they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered 
the good into vessels, hut cast the had away,'' 
What good will it do a man to gain the whole 
world if he forfeits his life? He who de- 
stroys his life now has destroyed it forever. 



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Faith in God 'is the only preserver of life 
eternal. Work done for the cause of right- 
eousness is the only measurement of reward. 
He who destroys the faith of another in God 
or in the teachings of Christ forfeits his own 
eternal happiness. He who neglects the op- 
portunity to restore the faith of a brother 
has failed to fulfill his mission from God. He 
who has not restored his brother has not for- 
given himself. He who begins the service 
of righteousness as soon as he understands 
will share its reward forever. Each worker 
must measure his own reward according to 
his faith and understanding. 

Jesus said: ''Thy faith hath made thee 
whole.'' God is not the God of dead men, 
but the God of living men. We must love 
God with all our strength, with all our mind, 
and with all our soul, and our neighbor as 
ourselves. 

God may give us many opportunities to 
become perfect, but to know Christ now and 
follow His example is our great opportunity, 
and eternal happiness our victory. 



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Man cannot abide the Golden Rule until 
he has learned what he is entitled to expect 
from his neighbor. We must not expect 
more from our neighbor than we give. ' 'As 
ye give, so shall ye receive.'' 

We cannot violate Nature's laws and 
escape Nature's penalty. Nature's laws are 
God's laws. God does not forgive us of 
our sins ; we must repent and make ourselves 
whole by overcoming our mistakes through 
faith in Christ. We must overcome wrong by 
doing right. 

A man would be foolish to go up on a 
high building and jump to the ground and 
pray God to save him from death and expect 
God to answer his prayer. Jesus was tempt- 
ed to cast Himself down from the pinnacle, 
but He did not, because He knew that He 
should not violate God's law of gravitation 
and ask God to save Him. People are vio- 
lating God's law every day, and wondering 
why their prayers are not answered. 

A child in school who did not learn his 
lessons, if he were forgiven and not required 



142 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

to study his lessons further, would not be- 
come educated; neither does God release us 
from that which we have left undone, nor 
the penalty of our ignorance; if He did, we 
could never reach perfection. 

But God does not hold malice against us. 
We must not hold malice or hatred against 
our neighbor. If we love our neighbor, there 
is nothing to forgive. If God loves us. He 
has nothing to forgive. It is by His grace 
that we are permitted to work out our own 
salvation, following the example He gave us. 
We must work with faith, realizing that all 
things are possible with God, but that knowl- 
edge of and obedience to His laws are our 
salvation. 



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Chapter VII. 



PERFECTION. 

Each individual, following the example of 
Christ, with faith and understanding, mani- 
festing the Divine Principle, must make his 
own atonement, demonstrating truth. 

The great accomplishment for all man- 
kind is to attain perfection. Those who gain 
Heaven must think their way in, resting se- 
curely in faith and a realization that Heaven 
is a state of perfect consciousness, the attain- 
ment of truth, and not position. Heaven is 
not limited by time, place, nor attainment. 
To gain Heaven, we must grow beyond the 
need of mediumship and come into direct 
touch with God and His angels. Persistent 
steadfastness, securely anchored by faith, 
sustained by hope, and elevated by desire, 
is the first stepping-stone towards knowledge 
and understanding. 

There are two kinds of people in the 



144 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

world: Those who know and those who do 
not know^ Those who know, do. If we 
have truly found the law of rigjiteousness, we 
are applying the principles of knowledge and 
truth in our daily lives. While we may not 
yet have attained perfection, we have turned 
our faces toward the I'ght. Our distance 
from the goal of perfection does not matter 
so much as the direction in which we are 
traveling. If we are facing truth and un- 
derstanding, though we may be far from the 
goal of perfection, and we continue to per- 
sistently travel onward with faith, hope, and 
action, gathering knowledge and understand- 
ing as we go, we must eventually reach per- 
fection. Truth knows no compromise be- 
tween right and wrong. 

Do not desire big things, to be a shining 
example; life is composed of little things, 
well executed. Obligate the world and 
Heaven will repay you. Knowledge is of no 
value unles you apply it daily. Works are 
the undi puted testimony of faith. There is 
no condemnation against him who works 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 145 

with understanding. That to faith the door 
of reformation is never closed, is no excuse 
for not doing your duty now. Eternity goes 
on forever. He who blights any part of 
eternity has cut out that much af a life of 
service. He who tires in the service of 
righteousness will tire in the reward of 
righteousness. The reward of righteousness 
is perfect thought and expression. 

Perfection i^ to comprehend God and 
understand ourselves and our mission. He 
who leaves a single duty undone cannot at- 
tain perfection. It is not he who is moved 
by sentiment and constant urging who will 
win, but he who calmly, deliberately makes 
up his mind to seek truth and overcome evil 
and apply his knowledge persistently, con- 
tinuously, with steadfastness, founded upon 
faith, encouraged by hope, and stimulated 
by desire for perfection and attainment. 
Perfection must include the spiritual man, 
the mental man, and the physical man. We 
must develop the Divine consciousness. We 
must unfold a proper desire. We must learn 



146 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

to live by faith alone. We must cease to 
resist evil and learn to overcome evil with 
good. 

Those who have attained much in the 
battle of righteousness must still remember 
their early experiences in order to be able to 
sympathize with the beginner. To teach a 
child, you must remember the life of your 
childhood; to counsel the sinner, you must 
remeniber the lesson of disobedience ; to pro- 
gress and grow, you must consecrate that 
which you have already attained. 

To attain perfection and comprehend 
God, you must be able to See God through 
faith, to feel God through love, to hear God 
through desire, and to touch your own soul 
through a comprehension of your mission to 
mankind. Thought is the first form of com- 
munion betewen man and God. We cannot 
think both good and evil at the same time. 

When we permit the sunlight of truth to 
enter our souls and our minds, understanding 
is there, and we are protected by the armor of 
righteous thought — evil, fear, darkness, and 



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misconception of truth are driven from out 
our consciousness. It is then that, through 
love^ faith, hope, and desire, we are turned 
about to face righteousness and truth, and 
begin to travel forward toward the goal of 
perfection. 

As we travel along life's pathway toward 
the goal of perfection, we will encounter 
many beliefs and ideas and witness much 
strange conduct; but we must let nothing 
turn us aside from our desire for perfection 
and eternal life; we must permit nothing to 
disturb our faith in the one God, the Divine 
Intelligence, the Creator of the universe; we 
must permit nothing to blight our hopes. 
To attain all there is for ourselves, we must 
permit nothing to sever our love and rever- 
ence for our Creator, our respect for our 
fellow-men and ourselves, and we must per- 
mit nothing to turn us aside from the great 
responsibility of performing our mission in 
the world. As we sow, so shall we reap; as 
we desire, so shall we receive. Let us write 
the law of truth in our hearts, and set our 



148 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

desires and hopes for the high goal of eternal 
perfection. 

But we must not forget the law of giving 
and receiving. We must give something for 
nothing before we can receive something for 
nothing. We must serve to receive reward. 
Living a Christian life is not living the Christ 
life. The one is following the teachings of 
Jesus, while the other is manifesting through 
the Christ within us. Both are essential in 
Spiritual Science. 

The universe is sustained by the law of 
balance. In the physical world and the 
natural world the law of balance manifests 
in the form of the law of gravitation; in the 
mental world the law of balance manifests 
in the form of judgment; in the spiritual 
world the law of balance manifests in the recog- 
nition of truth. This is the application of 
the Christ principle. We must realize the 
Christ principle within ourselves before we 
can find Christ. When we have found Christ, 
we are in harmony and attune with the In- 
finite; when we are in attune with the In- 



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finite, we have awakened the spiritual man 
within us — we have brought the soul - man 
into birth. 

The soul entity is a separate, distinct in- 
dividual apart from the mental man, reflect- 
ing and manifesting in the image and like- 
ness of God. Our soul individually is sus- 
tained by Divine Mind. The soul of God is 
eternal wisdom and understanding. The 
mind of God is the law of the universe; the 
body of God is the phenomena of Nature. 
The law of the universe is sustained by 
eternal wisdom; the phenomena of Nature 
are sustained by the law of the universe. The 
soul of man is sustained by Divine Mind ; the 
mind of man is sustained by individual soul ; 
the body of man is sustained by individual 
mind. 

To manifest perfection, man must be in 
balance with the trinity of God; to be- 
come in balance with the trinity of God, we 
must unfold the Christ life within ourselves. 
Some teach reincarnation as a sotuce of final 
perfection; but when you find Christ, you 



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do not need reincarnation; you are saved in 
eternal perfection. We do not live to satisfy 
a selfish desire, but to fulfill a mission. We 
must unfold all of our faculties and powers 
with quality. Life is a school in preparation 
for eternity. 

The law of perfection comes through the 
law of regeneration. The law of regenera- 
tion depends on the law of service. The law 
of service is the fulfilling of our life mission. 
Perfection is the fulfillment of the law of 
compensation, the attainment of Divine Life, 
Love, Light, and Law. He who has at- 
tained perfection has attained perfect master- 
hood. To become a master, you must be 
able to command poverty and prosperity, 
with equal self-control. He who has builded 
his house upon the rock of truth is neither 
moved by storm nor sunshine. Before the 
eye can see the pathway of truth it must be 
unclouded by tears. Masterhood can listen 
to censure and praise with equal interest. 
Before the ear can hear the whisper of duty 
it must lose its sensitiveness. 



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The master must learn to speak with 
equal kindness to friend or foe. Before the 
tongue can speak the truth it must cease to 
sting or flatter. The master must learn to 
sacrifice all for truth. Before the soul can 
stand with confidence it must be free from 
fear, pain, and emotion, and stand ever up- 
right. Masterhood destroys selfish ambition. 
It is easy to say, ''I am unselfish"; but we 
must learn to correct our mistakes at the 
threshold, otherwise they may bear fruit and 
destroy us. He who serves through righteous- 
ness seeks no reward. Forget yourself, and 
do right for truth's sake. 

The mere desire to live does not command 
eternal life. To live is more than to exist. 
Life is not the past or the future, but eternal. 
Eternity is now. The mere desire for com- 
fort does not bring happiness. The master 
permits no hardship to dethrone his purpose 
and determination to build true manhood. 

The perfect man has learned to work as 
those who work for selfish ambition; he has 
learned to enjoy as those who live for joy 



152 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

alone; he has learned to sacrifice as those 
who suffer by experience; he has learned to 
serve as those who serve for reward alone. 
Be not deceived; God is not mocked. Be 
not moved by sensation. Do not shrink from 
him who is deep in sin and shame. Remem- 
ber that the sin and shame of the world is 
your sin and shame; you are a part of the 
world. He who desires perfection and for- 
gets to love his brother can not receive. 
Never criticise others who are doing better 
than you can do. 

Think right, live right, breathe right, and 
love right, and learn to work and enjoy, serve 
and learn, desire and seek knowledge, and 
you will attain perfection. 



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Chapter VIII. 



SPIRITUAL COMMUNION. 

Facing God and living truth and the law of 
giving purifies the physical man, regenerates 
and educates the mental man, and illuminates 
the spiritual man with the gifts of inspiration, 
prophecy, spiritual communion, healing, and 
the working of miracles, into an understand- 
ing of God's Divine plan for the perfection of 
mankind as a spiritual being manifesting the 
Divine. 

Usually a form of worship carries no au- 
thority with mankind, except when its teach- 
ings come from some Source, or pretended 
Source, beyond the common knowledge of 
man. There are many manifestations of 
phenomena claiming to be message-bearers 
from on high. The usual test of genuine- 
ness applied to one claiming unusual powers 
is to determine whether or not the message 
he brings is one of truth and beyond the av- 
erage knowledge and experience of mankind. 



154 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

If the intellectual worth of that claimed as 
truth, coming through any form of phenom- 
ena or inspiration, is within the experience 
of average men and women, nothing can be 
gained therefrom. 

If phenomena are beyond the ordinary 
intelligence, and in harmony with truth and 
experience, mankind in a general way may 
be benefitted through their manifestations. 
Phenomena demanding investigation in this 
regard are suggestion, healing, telepathy, con- 
sciousness, sub-conscious mind, apparitions, 
mediumship, and coincidental dreams. 

The establishing of faith and confidence 
in the laws of Nature, as they are ordained 
and balanced by a Creator of perfect intelli- 
gence, as against the belief in a capricious 
interference with natural laws, by a limited 
and undependable Creator, has at all times 
been the criterion of culture. 

Religion is a code of ethics, founded upon 
a belief in God and the brotherhood of man. 
Religion is the product of man. Truth is the 
work of God. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 155 

There are many branches of religion 
which surround their fundamental premises 
with much form and ceremony, all of which 
are designed to stimulate belief, faith, and 
obedience; but primarily the foundation of 
religion is the belief that the individual pos- 
sesses a soul, which, through faith and obedi- 
ence, may be sustained throughout eternity. 
Christianity accepts the Christ as the one ex- 
ample of faith, understanding, obedience, and 
righteousness. 

The two original and fundamental prem- 
ises upon which all religious claims in their 
final analyses are founded are Materialism 
and Spiritualism. Materialism holds that 
all phenomena are of matter, whether phys- 
ical, mental, or psychic. The distinction be- 
tween Materialism and Spiritualism begins 
with the distinction between efficient and 
material cause. Material cause is the sub- 
stance or material out of which things are 
made or manifested. Efficient cause is the 
force, power, intelligence, or agent which 
puts them together. The material cause of 



156 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

a machine is the iron out of which it is made; 
the eflficient cause is the man who invented 
and made it. 

Materialism originally taught that the 
soul was composed of the finer elements and 
that it is dissolved with the physical body and 
returned to its prime condition upon the 
death of the individual. This belief is ex- 
actly opposite to the natural inclination of 
mankind to desire continuous and eternal 
consciousness. 

Later, materialism claimed to discover 
the indestructibility of matter and the con- 
servation of energy. Materialism then at- 
tempted to establish the atom or element as 
a permanent basis of things, and to connect 
with this the entity of motion or energy. 
This premise contends that matter is the 
eternal thing and intelligence its function. 
Materialism then gave up the idea of the ex- 
istence of a soul as a part of its claim and 
belief, and claims that intelligence is a fimc- 
tional action. 

The fundamental idea of Materialism is 



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that all organic things are composed of dif- 
ferent elements compounded and which at 
the disscession of the phenomena of life dis- 
solve themselves into the original elements 
which constitute them, whether visible or in- 
visible. 

Materialists who admit the existence of a 
soul contend that its consciousness is the 
result of a composition and combination of 
matter, and that it manifests as the light in 
burning gas is the result of burning oxygen 
and carbon; but that it ceases to exist upon 
the death of the physical body, as the light 
disappears when the combination of gas, air, 
and fire are extinguished. 

Materialism contends that it is an eter- 
nal principle that causes certain union and 
combination of matter to manifest life. At 
first glance, this appears to be a very sound 
and substantial premise, and many have 
been led from the path of righteousness and 
a belief in God as principle, person, and in- 
telligence by its apparent reality. 

The earlier Spiritual teachers afiirmed 



158 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

that the soul is attached to the physical body, 
and that upon the dissolution of the physical 
body the soul (or mind) exists for a time in a 
consciousness of purification, and that the 
finer elements of mind arise to the heavens 
as spirit, thus giving rise to the doctrine of 
sainthood, and basing this belief upon the 
theory that heavy matter settles to the earth 
and lighter matter rises upward, thus reason- 
ing that the soul mind does not perish with 
the body. This philosophy also affirmed the 
existence of a Prime Mover, or First Cause, 
and that matter cannot move itself, but is 
influenced In all its combinations by a Divine 
Intelligence. 

Spiritual Science rejects the belief of Ma- 
terialism, alleging and affirming that God is 
spirit and that the human soul is immortal. 
It seeks to establish as the Moving Cause 
indivisible and invisible substance which is 
termed ''spirit,'' and the resurrection of 
those who pass beyond the physical body 
in right belief and faith into a consciousness 
of life eternal, relying upon the demonstra- 



SPIRlTUAIv SCIENCE. 159 

tion of Jesus Christ to establish the law of 
eternal life as a part of a Divine plan, which 
is confirmed by life and its phenomena. It 
refuses to admit that any combination of 
matter and substance could be eternal, and 
regards the very atoms of our existence 
physically, as created through intelligence 
and the powers of Divine thought and mind, 
thus opening the way for a spiritual exist- 
ence and identity, which it terms the ' ' ethe- 
real background of all things." 

In recent years some have gone still far- 
ther and denied the existence of matter, al- 
leging that all is spirit and its manifesta- 
tions, substance and life. 

Spiritual Science contends and claims 
that matter and mind have no common prop- 
erty, and that neither consciousness nor sub- 
stance depends upon matter. Hence the 
philosophy of Spiritual Science requires a 
soul as its fundamental and basic reality, 
with spirit as the foundation. A final con- 
clusion among many believing in Christianity 
is that substance and mind are so different 



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in their construction that they are not capa- 
ble of acting one with or upon the other. 
In the face of this final conclusion, the con- 
stant testimony of things as they exist in 
Nature causes it to appear most evident 
that they either do so act together and upon 
each other or objectively seem to do so. 

Whatever we behojd of Nature, and 
whether or not we believe there is any re- 
ality in Cosmos (God), the ordinary testi- 
mony of human experience finds conscious- 
ness associated with physical structure, and 
has no common knowledge of existence apart 
from association with the physical body. 
Without the application of faith in our con- 
sciousness, we can never have any vision of 
the principles of intelligence and realities in 
the universe, which are eternal. Denying 
Materialism does not disprove it; affirming 
Spiritual Science does not prove it. The 
proper thing to do is to think, concentrate, 
and apply our intelligence with faith, that 
we may individuajily, through the law of 
spiritual unfoldment, gain a true under- 



SPIRITUAIv SCIENCE. i6i 

standing of the eternal manifestation of the 
soul and the reality of a Divine Creator. 

It is certain that physical, mental, or 
psychic phenomena can be no higher than 
the degree of intelligence of the medium 
through which it is produced; and while 
communications may bring information of 
things unknown to either the medium or 
his audience, knowledge and intelligence are 
different conditions, and intelligence must 
precede knowledge. Phenomena rightfully 
can go no farther than help to explain the 
natural law of things and establish evidence 
of the continuity of life; and when we have 
been converted to believe that there is life 
and individuality after this plane of con- 
sciousness, our faith is established, and we 
will fall upon our knees and worship God, 
repent of our sins, and begin life anew, 
serving both God and man; otherwise, we 
are still skeptics or become mere phenomena- 
worshipers. 

The intelligent mind realizes that apart 
from scientific phenomena there is no evi- 



i62 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

dence of a survival of the individual after 
passing beyond the physical body. Thus 
Spiritual Science must strike swords with 
Materialism and, to succeed, establish logi- 
cal evidence of the existence of a soul as its 
fundamental principle. 

However, we are not confined to that 
which may be obtained through communica- 
tions as evidence of immortality. There are 
many phenomena of life testifying to the 
reality of eternal life. 

Originally the term ''Spiritualist'' de- 
noted one who believed that man is an im- 
mortal soul, created in the image and like- 
ness of God; later this term was adopted by 
certain people whose understanding of Spir- 
itualism was only to the extent of believing 
in the possibility of communication with the 
dead, and whose fundamental basic principle 
of action was the exercising of such phe- 
nomena as apparitions, mediumship, and 
dreams — relying upon this form of phenom- 
ena alone to prove eternal Hfe. The original 
jdea of Spiritualism was Idealism; but the 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 163 

common mind being unable to follow Ideal- 
ism, and, like doubting Thomas, demand- 
ing testimony tangent to the physical senses, 
its philosophy branched off into material 
phenomena, and this class of operators be- 
gan to call these phenomena ''Spiritualism*'; 
undertaking to separate them from religion 
and the doctrine of faith, and going no farther 
than the material phenomena, which were 
offered as a sort of hope for eternal life, which 
the mental or psychic could not supply. 

The true Spiritual disciple is one whose 
attitude toward and belief in God and a 
future life urges him toward righteous living, 
includes ethical and moral conduct, love, 
reverence, faith, hope, and obedience, tends 
towards his elevation of thought, depend- 
ing upon spiritual unfoldment, in harmony 
with truth and the will of God, as a source 
of strength and inspiration. This is the 
teaching of Spiritual Science. 

Agnostic Idealism is intellectual; and 
philosophy and artistic attitude does not 
necessarily believe in Divine immortality, 



i64 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

but depends on the intellect alone as the 
source of its strength and inspiration. 

Among some people Spiritualism and its 
phenomena have developed into a form of 
ancestral worship, depending entirely upon 
guides for protection and counsel, in disre- 
gard of intelligence and reason. Its medi- 
ums, who fail to follow the example of Christ 
or to recognize the necessity of expelling im- 
morality, fraud, and unrighteous unconscious 
control from their midst, do not seem to 
understand that the way of immortality is 
of little importance unless associated with 
moral character and eternal happiness. 

Thinking teachers and educators, or the 
public, will not listen to illiterate demon- 
strators, much less respect revelation coming 
from hysterical and uneducated mediums, 
and far less from frauds who have no apology 
for their conduct. Nevertheless, while there 
is much confusion, turmoil, misapplication, 
and misunderstanding surrounding the mani- 
festations of phenomena, yet there are fund- 
amental psychic laws, which can be applied 
to attain certain and dependable results. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 165 

In investigating Spiritual Communion, it 
is personal identity and intelligent declara- 
tions of truth and philosophy that interest 
us most. 

Some teachers claim thai under any theory 
of its existence the soul may change 
its personality and lose its sense of personal 
past identity. Spiritual vScience teaches that 
to prove the continuity of life we must iden- 
tify and prove that a soul has memory of 
its past experience. We must prove the sur- 
vival of personal consciousness and its knowl- 
edge of personal identity. This requires 
that we obtain facts and phenomena amen- 
able to intelligence and reason which will 
prove the identity of the particular person 
claiming to survive. This is both a religious 
and a scientific problem, which lays the foun- 
dation for a true religious premise. 

The only answer to Materialism is to 
establish intelligent communion with and 
the reality of the so-called ''dead." If Jesus 
of Nazareth did not return to the disciples 
after the crucifixion, the whole structure of 



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the Christian religion and continuity of life 
falls to the ground. 

In our lives we do not know what con- 
sciousness is, yet we know that we are con- 
scious. We have * no direct knowledge of 
how we think, although we know that we 
have power to think. I do not know that 
you are conscious — I can only judge from 
your conduct. We can only know that there 
is a God by reasoning from design or per- 
ceiving through faith. 

The Materialist can only deny that there 
is a hereafter; he cannot prove that con- 
sciousness ceases at death. His belief in an- 
nihilation eliminates his power to deny. He 
must survive to affirm his non-survival. We 
are certain of the disappearance of the hu- 
man body or physical organism; and if we 
fail to prove the continuity of the soul, Ma- 
terialism has won the victory, and we are 
eternally lost. 

If communication with and the reality 
of the so-called ''dead'' can be scientifically 
and with certainty established, we have gone 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 167 

beyond the realm of Materialism, and es- 
tablished a reality which is beyond the com- 
prehension of material mind or entity. If 
we refuse to consider communion with the 
so-called '*dead/' we eliminate the possibil- 
ity of the strongest evidence of our hope for 
eternal life. 

The real problem is to eliminate imma- 
terial evidence and establish evidence with 
moral fiber and intelligence; and logically 
we are entitled to consider and introduce 
the moving of physical objects without con- 
tact, suggestive healing, materialization, ap- 
parition, mind-reading, telepathy, medium- 
ship, clairvoyance, super-normal conception, 
dousing, dreams, automatic writing, inspir- 
ational vSpeaking, sub-conscious mental and 
psychic phenomena, genius, or any other 
phenomena unexplainable through the prem- 
ise of Materialism. 

Spiritual Communion must establish 
super-normal existence, experience, knowl- 
edge, and intelligence; it must also estab- 
lish the identity of individuals claiming to 



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demonstrate or commune spiritually, psychic- 
ally, or mentally in the form of instances 
which are memories of the former life of 
those claiming to survive, unknown to any 
living person, but which can be proven to 
reasonable minds or by tangible evidence. It 
may establish a law of foretelling the future 
as well as the individual inspiration of truth. 
A revelation is always something which 
exists now, and not something to come to 
pass in the future. If God had desired that 
we should know a/Z things to come to pass 
in the future. He would have provided us 
with a constant gift of discernment, out of 
which we could get this information in our 
normal state of consciousness. The truth 
is, that that which is to come is locked in 
the secret consciousness of God, and if He 
wants you to know, and you are worthy, you 
will understand what is to happen in the fu- 
ture, and will have no need to go to a me- 
dium to find out. If you desire to know 
what will come to pass, get down on your 
knees and sincerely pray to God for what 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. ' 169 

you want, and, if you are entitled to it, it 
will be given, and you can know that it will 
happen as well beforehand as after it comes 
to pass. If we believe that the future can 
be foretold, we must believe in fatalism. If 
the future is foreordained, why should we 
worry about what is to come that must come? 
If things are set out for our future, what is 
the advantage of being able to think? Ex- 
perience has many times demonstrated that 
people who devote their entire time to look- 
ing into the future will always neglect the 
present. The most contemptible, wicked, 
vulgar, and unpardonable crime in this con- 
nection is to be constantly predicting dark 
conditions or misfortune to others or your- 
self. Spiritual Science teaches that true 
prophecy is seldom received by one who is 
always inquiring about the future. Prophecy 
is voluntary, and cannot be forced by lead- 
ing questions. We must do our share that 
prophecy may be fulfilled. 

There is no reason why a man who has 
passed beyond the physical body should 



I70 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

know much more about the future than a 
man who is yet subject to physical law. 
Also communication presuming to come from 
the world beyond, which tells you something 
you already know, while it may become a 
part of a chain of evidence, does not prove 
eternal life. This eliminates all manifesta- 
tions, communications, or phenomena not 
related to the personal identity of the so- 
called ''dead/' All mental or psychic phe- 
nomena, telepathy, suggestive healing, phe- 
nomena of the subconscious mind, conscious 
or subconscious mediumship, to become rele- 
vant, must bring knowledge not otherwise 
attainable. 

However, spiritual communion may con- 
firm many things which we already know and 
believe; but each student must make his 
own investigation and judge their reality 
and intelligence. The great problem is to 
prove the continuity of life and to learn 
what we must do, and how we must live, to 
fulfill the law of eternal life. 

The present consciousness is quite as mys- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 171 

terious as any supposed or established future 
consciousness. The subconscious mind is 
composed of all the thoughts or impressions 
that have ever passed through the conscious 
mind, through observation, conception, in- 
spiration> vSUggestion, expansion by faith, or 
endowment by our Creator. 

Spiritual communion is made possible 
through the liberation of the subconscious or 
soul mind through conscious auto-suggestion. 

When we pass beyond the physical body 
in the event of so-called '* death,'' the soul 
mind becomes eternally conscious. Psychic 
development is bringing the soul mind into 
consciousness through the action of faith and 
suggestion. Phenomena may be produced 
by submerging the objective mind and leav- 
ing the subjective mind subject to the sug- 
gestions given it — or by holding the sug- 
gestion in the objective mind while retaining 
individual consciousness. 

The subjective mind solves all problems 
acting upon the suggestions given it, whether 
the objective mind be submerged or retained 



172 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

through the action of telepathy, perception, 
conception, intuition, and inspiration. The 
soul reasons by deduction only. Perception 
is soul sight; conception is soul hearing; in- 
tuition is soul touch, tasting, and smelling; 
inspiration is soul reasoning; telepathy is the 
application of all these soul senses in soul 
communion as conditions may require. The 
soul is a separate entity apart from the men- 
tal or physical man, and does not depend on 
either for its existence or continuity. 

There are many instances where the soul 
of an individual has passed beyond the phys- 
ical body during sleep, sickness, or supposed 
death, and again returned to normal action. 

Scientific research and psychic phenom- 
ena have many times revealed the power 
of the souls of individuals, in life, to com- 
municate with each other. In many instan- 
ces individuals have mistaken these commu- 
nications for messages from the so-called 
"dead." 

Since it has been many times demon- 
strated that communication can be had be- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 173 

tween the souls of the living, and that the 
soul does not depend on the physical body 
for its existence, it is not a radical conclusion 
to say that communication can be had be- 
tween the souls of the living and the so- 
called '*dead"; yet it is important that one 
should not be mistaken for the other. 

To be of value, communication with those 
who have passed beyond the physical body 
must bring us knowledge and experience 
which cannot be easily obtained by or 
through those living in the physical body. 
If these communications do not elevate as 
well as bring us superior knowledge and ex- 
perience, they should be discarded. If a 
form of communication can be found which 
does benefiit and bring us a superior knowl- 
edge and experience, it should be developed 
and cultivated and put into practical service. 

The kind of spiritual communion that can 
he most depended upon, and which we can 
know comes from the world beyond, is that 
which we bring to ourselves individually through 
the law of silence, concentration, desire, sug- 
gestion, and right thinking. 



174 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

When the soul is developed, it is in har- 
mony with the souls of the living and the 
so-called ''dead/' When we are able to 
bring our objective and conscious self into 
harmony with our subjective or soul mind, 
we are in touch with all life, all truth. This 
is truly spiritual communion. It inspires us 
to righteousness; it strengthens our faith; it 
convinces us that hfe is eternal; it teaches us 
the way; it shows us our mission; it brings 
us health, prosperity, and success. We can 
attain it as individuals. 

When the soul of a medium is bound by 
an erroneous suggestion, and under uncon- 
scious unrighteous control, it cannot mani- 
fest in harmony with the law of truth. 

When the soul of an individual is liber- 
ated through right thinking, right desire, 
right suggestion, and a right conn^ection be- 
tween the subjective and objective minds 
during a state of perfect consciousness, or 
under proper control, it is in possession of 
all truth. 

We would expect religion to seize upon 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 175 

any evidence of immortality and analyze it 
to the uttermost; but modern religion seems 
to resist proof of the survival of the so-called 
''dead," being satisfied by blind belief and 
blind faith. While belief and faith are es- 
sential to eternal life, yet it is also necessary 
that we have understanding; otherwise we 
could not enjoy eternal life. Eternal life 
is of no value except it bring us eternal hap- 
piness. Eternal happiness demands under- 
standing of the laws of its existence and act- 
uaUty. This understanding comes through 
individual spiritual communion — soul com- 
muning with soul, seeking truth and the laws 
of righteousness, and through an understand- 
ing of these laws manifesting its desire for 
eternal happiness. 

The appeal to consciousness as the final 
test of truth carries with it the implication 
that it is the present that bears the golden 
treasures of the past and the future. 

Faith is good, experience is better; but 
faith based upon experience and reason is 
absolute. Our conduct is based either upon 



176 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

fear or reason. Belief, faith, experience, 
and reason will guide us to the true road 
of eternal happiness, and spiritual com- 
munion will sustain us upon the highway of 
eternal life forever. 

He who, through faith and the power of 
suggestion, arouses his own soul to claim its 
own, can, with knowledge of the demonstra- 
tion and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, 
demonstrate the true spiritual communion. 

Spiritual Science teaches that when the 
soul leaves the body it does not change, but 
that it retains its knowledge, habits, inclina- 
tions, desires, and experiences, and that it is 
able to think, act, and enjoy. The real self 
is developed more through the power of 
thought and properly directed action than 
in any other manner. The true test of char- 
acter is courage and capacity. Thoughts of 
truth build up the inner man; thoughts of 
selfishness can accomplish nothing for us or 
for others. 

What we really are depends on what we 
really think. Faith and love are the keys 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 177 

to salvation. We must learn to love the 
Lord God with all our hearts, and our neigh- 
bor as ourselves. Christ overcame death 
and sin through the laws of faith and love. 
True faith in God was the great lesson which 
Jesus of Nazareth taught to mankind. We 
can help ourselves most when we learn to 
help others. Love purifies us and strength- 
ens us to overcome sin. How few people 
realize the power of love ! 

Spiritual communion is the science of re- 
ceiving truth from righteous spiritual beings, 
who are continually around and about us. 
Christ was a perfect spiritual being before 
He was incarnated in the flesh as a messenger 
of Divine thought and truth. His life dem- 
onstrated the law of spirituality, both to 
those in the flesh and those who had passed 
beyond the flesh. Jesus did not impair His 
spiritual consciousness by being born into 
the flesh and manifesting through physical 
structure. 

God is revealed to us through thoughts of 
love, faith, and service. Spiritual beings who 



178 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

serve us awaken their love for God and 
His creatures just as we, by serving our 
fellow-men, awaken love for God and our 
fellow-men. But we are taught by the 
prophets of old not to seek one with a fa- 
miliar spirit. A familiar spirit is one who, 
in the flesh or having passed beyond the 
flesh, presumes to be one of authority and 
assumes Divinity, or to be familiar with God. 
God is no respecter of persons. A serving 
spirit is one who seeks to inspire us with 
more faith in God and a greater love for Him 
and all His creatures. 

All individuals who live in or out of the 
flesh possess a soul; and when that soul has 
become awakened to a realization of truth, 
the individual has entered into the realm of 
spirituality. 

Ignorance prevails among those who have 
passed beyond the body, just as ignorance 
prevails among men and women in their 
present earthly state of consciousness. Phe- 
nomena testify of the sufferings of ignorance 
beyond, compared with which the orthodox 
Hell is a mere playhouse. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 179 

I^^cannot conceive of stronger evidence 
that there is a Hell than the testimony 
of some '* departed spirits"; neither can I 
imagine a better example of the horrors of 
Hell than the result of unrighteous spiritual- 
istic advice, which in itself is the visiting of 
the most terrible Hell in our very midst. 

When we enlarge our opportunities and 
possibilities we also enlarge our temptations. 
When you break the soil, it will grow both 
weeds and flowers. He who would possess 
the rose must pujl the weeds and preserve 
the flower. We must always remember that 
we cannot grow beyond our ability to protect 
ourselves against error, sin, and temptation. 

We must not desire to grow too fast. As 
we unfold, we must open our consciousness 
to the realization of all good. Faith must 
become our sword, and understanding our 
shield, while love must be our guide and 
protector. 

Jesus loved all mankind and desired that 

all love Him. Each individual must be his 

.own savior, following the example of Jesus 



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of Nazareth. No one is capable of judging 
his brother. You cannot judge the color of 
my garment by the color of my shadow. 
You cannot say what is hidden in a man's 
heart. Judge not a man by the name of his 
church. But what he does and how he wor- 
ships is of great importance. Only God is 
in possession of all truth. Spiritual com- 
munion cannot originate truth, but when we 
come into harmony with the spiritual con- 
sciousness, we are able to find truth. He 
who develops faith will find God. He who 
attains understanding will find truth. He 
who cultivates love- will discover his mission 
in the world. 

We must establish truth within ourselves 
before we can have spiritual communion with 
those who are in perfect understanding of 
truth. We must not mistake material phe- 
nomena for spiritual communion. When we 
hear material phenomena testifying concern- 
ing happiness beyond this life of those who 
dissipated in this life, in which we witness 
the law that dissipation brings sorrow, we 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. i8i 

can certainly know that this testimony is 
not true spiritual communion. 

He who would attain perfect spiritual 
communion must not crowd God out of his 
life. We cannot commune with the angel 
of truth and deny God at the same time. 
We must learn to cultivate the Divine within 
ourselves. The infinite spirit of God is all 
around and about us. We cannot attain 
spiritual communion until we learn to send 
good thoughts to our enemies. We must 
hold thoughts of good for others as well as 
for ourselves. Thoughts of good are in har- 
mony with truth, and will bring positive 
results. Thoughts of selfishness or revenge 
intended to bring sorrow to others will only 
return to us with that which we expected 
to accomplish against our neighbor. 

If we expect to attain spiritual com- 
munion and inspiration of truth, we must 
spend some of our time in silent meditation 
about God. We might as well expect to get 
a drink of pure water out of a mud-hole 
as to receive a communication from God 



i82 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

through an instrument whose life does not 
demonstrate the principles and teachings of 
Jesus Christ. 

Many times we have failed to reach otu 
loved ones because they cannot reach us 
by means of the instrument through whom 
we seek, and while we are being fed on the 
husks of fraud, deceit, and the phenomena 
of ignorant mind, they weep for our deliver- 
ance. Had we purified our own lives and 
silently meditated about God, we could have 
received the message of spiritual communion 
from our loved ones and from the angels of 
truth, direct and individually. 

That which we receive as truth for our- 
selves, through ourselves, we can verify as 
reality; that which we receive through others 
must he measured by our belief in their sin- 
cerity and understanding; otherwise it is sub- 
ject to doubt and conjecture. 

The object of life is to develop the Divine 
within ourselves. It is idolatry to depend 
on a spirit as oiu* entire source of guidance. 
God has established the law of spiritual com- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCK. 183 

munion in order that we may receive the 
proof of eternal life as a reward for faith. 
But it would only be a curse to us to have 
a spirit to guide us in everything we do; it 
would be like a mother always carrying her 
child — it could never learn to walk. We 
must remember that spiritual beings are not 
omniscient because they have laid the phys- 
ical body aside. We must remember the 
teachings of Jesus when He said: ''God is 
not the God of the dead, hut of the living.'^ 
A righteous spiritual being can only desire 
to lead us into truth and understanding so 
that we may, as individuals, perform our 
mission in the world. A spiritual being who 
would presume to do our work for us would 
thereby deprive us of the privilege of salva- 
tion, and we would become as dead men and 
women. Jesus said: ''Whatsoever a man 
sowethy that shall he also reap.'' God has 
made the law so that each must reap ac- 
cording to his work. 

Those who have passed beyond the phys- 
ical body and who are yet bound by ignorant 



i84 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

mind are not competent to guide us into the 
path of truth. Spiritual communion is not 
Spiritism or spirit worship or phenomena 
worship. Spiritual communion is coming 
into harmony with the law of spirituality 
and eliminating all consciousness of error 
and ignorant mind. Through the use of 
spiritual communion we can commune with 
souls of righteousness. To depend on the 
manifestations of material phenomena for 
our source and guidance is violating the 
first commandment: ''Thou shall love the 
Lord thy God with all thy hearty and with all 
thy soul, and with all thy mind.'' ''Thou shalt 
have no other Gods before me, ' \ saith the Lord. 
This is the first commandment. Spiritual 
communion keeps this commandment. Phe- 
nomena-worshipers violate it. "For God is 
not the author of confusion^ 

There are four classes of individuals who 
communicate with the next world: First, 
those whose independence of character and 
self-reliance has been destroyed by spirits 
who insist on guiding their every step; sec- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 185 

ond, those who are mere curiosity - seekers ; 
third, those who wish to perpetuate sinful 
relation, and who seek familiar spirits; 
fourth, those who seek truth, light, and un- 
derstanding that they may be enabled to 
walk alone and develop their own spiritual- 
ity, character, manhood, and womanhood 
through the silent communion of soul ^ to soul 
in righteous thought. 

Do not seek to see across the border until 
you are sure that the sorrow and shame there 
will not overbalance you. Do not ask for 
power and authority until you are sure that 
you can control it properly. Do not try to 
force your spiritual development. Remem- 
ber, a blossom plucked too soon will never 
become fruit and soon decays. A lost soul is 
one who is bound by misconception and error. 

Spiritual communion depends on the pur- 
ification of the physical man, the education 
of the mental man, and the liberation of the 
spiritual man. The first principle which must 
be developed and applied as a part of our- 
selves to attain spiritual communion is faith, 



i86 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

which must be brought into proper action 
through constructive suggestion. The use of 
suggestion must be controlled by thoughts 
of truth. We must also open our soul with 
the thought of love for our fellow-men. 

The five primary laws of preparation for 
spiritual communion are: Interest, Classifi- 
cation, Association, Concentration, and Elim- 
ination. Interest is voluntary and invol- 
untary. Through voluntary interest we de- 
velop involuntary interest. Voluntary in- 
terest is that which we hold for ourselves 
through the operation of auto-suggestion ; in- 
voluntary interest is that which we develop 
as a part of our nature through the desire 
for truth and understanding. 

Classification is the ability within our- 
selves to analyze ourselves and ascertain 
where to build, and how to eliminate error. 
We must become able to see our own faults 
before we can overcome them. We must 
learn to know where to build and how to 
overcome in order to establish truth within 
our consciousness. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 187 

Association is developing that power 
within ourselves to affiliate ourselves with 
that which will bring us all good, and learn- 
ing to draw good from that with which we 
come in touch. 

Concentration is learning to centralize 
and control our attention, interest, and de- 
sire, and directing our powers and forces to- 
ward the principle of harmony and the at- 
tainment of truth and understanding, de- 
veloping our own soul through the law of 
silent meditation. 

Elimination is learning to discard error, 
preparing us to build upon truth. 

Spiritual communion is more than com- 
munication with spirit beings or spiritual 
entities, and must include the developing of 
individual soul capacity, bringing us into 
harmony with higher inspiration through 
the laws of purification, education, and lib- 
eration. 

To attain spiritual communion we must 
learn to think right, seek right, live right, and 
to be right, developing within ourselves ptire 



i88 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

habits, cheerful attitude; and surrounding 
ourselves with orderly conditions, pure at- 
mosphere, and a state of quietude. 

We must first become interested in the 
importance of self-development before we 
can develop and grow. After we have 
learned the value of self-development, we 
must learn to classify ourselves and eliminate 
our faults and enlarge our virtues. We must 
associate ourselves with others who believe 
in the law of righteousness and its reward. 
We must concentrate and centralize our 
powers and bring ourselves all good, realizing 
that concentration will pierce the condition 
of error and establish the eternal truth in 
our consciousness, just as the sunlight dis- 
solves the snowflake by the wayside or van- 
quishes the darkness of the cave. 

When we have learned to discover truth 
through the law of concentration, we are on 
the road to knowledge and understanding, 
and will become able to eliminate that which 
we do not need, and build into our own 
lives and character the reality of that 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 189 

which we do need. Gaining knowledge is 
the process of eliminating error and discov- 
ing truth. 

Spiritual communion brings the proper 
attainment of that which is higher than our- 
selves through the use of silent concentra- 
tion, building the physical, mental, and spir- 
itual reality within our individual conscious- 
ness. These become the man four - square 
and the message-bearers of inspirational truth. 
We must learn that thoughts are things; 
that thoughts centered and crystallized be- 
come ideas; that thoughts centered, crystal- 
lized, and expressed become knowledge; and 
that thoughts centered, crystallized, express- 
ed, and applied become wisdom and under- 
standing. 

Spiritual communion is the foundation of 
prophecy and the forerunner of a new day — 
the dawn of greater and better things for 
ourselves and humanity. 

The Scriptures tell us: ''Beloved, believe 
not every spirity but try the spirits, whether 
hey are of God; because many false prophets 



^9^ SPIRITUAL SCIENCK. 

are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye 
the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth 
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God, 
and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus 
Christ is come in the flesh is not of God.'' 

To receive a spiritual message of truth 
and righteousness through the law of spiritual 
communion, we must bring ourselves in at- 
tune and in harmony with truth and right- 
eousness having proper attitude. 

Spiritual inspiration depends on the 
knowledge of the oneness of God and the 
a'lness of spirit. Critical science can ques- 
tion religion, and divide the aCorn into its 
elements and destroy its life principle, but it 
cannot put it together again and re-create 
the acorn. Where and what life and spirit 
are it cannot tell. The testimony of departed 
spirits is beautiful and inspiring, but it is 
more wonderful to have the knowledge of 
spirituality within our consciousness, wherein 
we can realize the reality of eternal life, with 
the understanding that we are spiritual beings 
who can see God in Natvire, in man, in our- 



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selves and beyond the veil. Spirituality 
recognizes God in the thorn as well as in 
the rose. 

The only way to Heaven and eternal 
happiness is to learn to think right, to live 
right, to breathe right, to eat right, and to 
serve right — fulfilling our mission in the 
world. 

The beginner must live by faith alone; 
but maturity is attained when we learn to 
choose our own spiritual food with knowl- 
edge and understanding. When we are first 
born into the consciousness of spirituality, 
we can only behold the wondrous phenomena 
of Nature, and with faith trust God to com- 
plete the great work of creation; but when 
our spiritual eyes are fully opened, we begin 
to realize and understand that God has al- 
ready completed the work of Nature, and all 
that remains unfinished is our service to our 
Creator. Nature is the first testimony of 
God's Divine power and authority. We may 
excuse ourselves and mystify our fellow- 
men, but we cannot deceive God or avoid the 



192 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

laws of righteousness. We plant the seed, 
but God must grow the tree and produce the 
blossom and the fruit. To sow the seed of 
spirituality, we must live the life of a Naz- 
arene. Ignorant mind cannot be harmonized 
with perfect mind, but the atonement of 
truth overcomes and eliminates error, mis- 
conception, and ignorance, and establishes 
the reality of spiritual life, which is in har- 
mony and in constant communion with Di- 
vine Intelligence. 

Sentiment has no part in the law of right- 
eousness, but a desire for knowledge and un- 
derstanding is pleasing to Divine Intelligence. 
He who cannot see the wisdom of following 
the path of duty will be unable to enjoy the 
reward of service. We must be able to 
recognize God in Nature, to recognize Na- 
ture as God's work and creation, before the 
avenue will open for higher understanding 
and the attainment of truth. 

To deny the reality of Nature is to deny 
the reality of God. To deny the reaUty of 
physical structure is to deny the reality of 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. i93 

God. To deny the reality of finite mind is 
to deny the reaUty of Infinite Mind. Finite 
mind, purified by right thinking, is to sow 
the seed of Ufe in the field of righteousness. 
Finite mind is not ignorant mind. Ignorant 
mind craves confusion, error, rebellion, and 
disorder. Finite mind craves knowledge, 
wisdom, understanding, and obedience. 

A spiritual woman can inspire man to 
greater deeds than any disembodied spirit. 
Behind every man who has accomplished in 
this world somewhere is a woman. The most 
Divine form of spiritual communion is that 
communion between the souls of a righteous 
man and a virtuous woman. 

To understand this truth is an essential 
element to spiritual attainment. We cannot 
purify that which of its nature is impure, 
but we can replace it with purification. Vir- 
tue, righteousness, and the desire for under- 
standing are essential stepping-stones for 
spirituality and spiritual communion. Spir- 
itual Science gives us a solid foundation for 
the continuation of chastity and righteous 



194 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

thinking. Spiritual communion does not 
presume to provide us with the knowledge 
as to what will happen to-morrow, but it 
must bring us an understanding of that 
which we should do to-day. While the gift 
of prophecy is a great stimulant to our faith, 
we must not forget the necessity of doing 
our work 

The performing of our mission in the 
world must serve as a developer of our spir- 
itual unfoldment, as well as to set a shining 
example for our fellow-men, which will en- 
courage the faith of mankind so that all will 
continue to serve in the vineyard of right- 
eousness. 

A religious atmosphere is essential to spir- 
itual communion ; but we must not forget that 
success in the ordinary duties of life is a part 
of our service in the world. Spiritual Science 
must help us to be healthy and strong — 
help us to think in harmony with truth con- 
cerning our business affairs as well as our re- 
ligious affairs. He who is not successful in 
business cannot be successful in religion; but 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. i95 

to be successful in business does not mean 
that we are to be selfish in business. Some- 
times we can preach the gospel of righteous- 
ness by our conduct in business better than 
from the pulpit. A successful lawyer is one 
who develops the talent of reason, analysis, 
and logic in order that he may assist others 
in the protection of their civic rights. A 
physician develops a knowledge of certain 
inharmonious conditions, commonly called 
''disease/' in order that he may use this 
knowledge to better care for humanity and 
relieve sickness and suffering in those who 
'are unable to help themselves. 

Many men and women undergo much 
deprivation that they may obtain an educa- 
tion in order that they may uplift humanity. 
The astronomer may devote his life to a 
study of the stars that he may use this knowl- 
edge to promote a great science, and cause 
mankind to realize and appreciate the won- 
derful work of Nature and the magnitude of 
the universe. 

Any one who uses his knowledge and un- 



196 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

derstanding for the cause of truth and right- 
e6usness is a missionary for higher attainment. 
It is our duty to unfold and develop our phys- 
ical and mental talent for the upbuilding and 
service of mankind. It is more essential and 
important that we unfold and develop our 
spiritual talent, our spiritual vision and in- 
spiration, and spiritual prophecy, that we 
may be better able to demonstrate to the 
world with certainty the greatness and mag- 
nitude of the plan of eternal life, and that 
the salvation of one's soul is the most im- 
portant thing in the world. 



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ChapTe^r IX. 



REVELATION. 

Giving knowledge to our fellow-men, and 
exemplifying all that is within ourselves for 
the glory of God and His Divine Plan for the 
purification and regeneration of man, is our 
service to mankind and thus to God, that all 
may become perfect in Him, spiritually reflect- 
ing and manifesting the Divine principles of 
truth and love among men, fulfilling the laws 
of eternal life. 

Revelation comes to us through the law of 
inspiration, tribulation, or experience. A 
revelation is always a truth. True experi- 
ence is founded upon attainment and can 
never be based upon failure. Failure comes 
through a misapplication of the law. Ex- 
perience comes through a proper application 
of the law. Revelation does not include in- 
correct idea or impracticable theory. The 
application of a revelation will always bring 
certain and dependable results. Truth must 



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always be revealed to us, while incorrect ideas 
must be exposed. That which reveals truth 
to us is a revelation. When misconception 
and incorrect idea is exposed to us, it does 
not necessaiily reveal truth to us, but it may 
teach us to avoid that particular notion 
which has been exposed as misconception of 
truth. 

We may have many incorrect ideas and 
much misconception of truth before truth in 
its reality is totally revealed to us through 
inspiration, tribulation, or experience. 

Through experience we may be obliged 
to undergo the result and penalty of every 
conceivable misapplication of the law of 
truth before it is revealed to us. 

Under the law of tribulation we may un- 
dergo much sorrow and discomfort before 
truth is revealed to us and we learn how to 
apply it. 

Under the guide of inspiration, which 
comes through the spiritual unf oldment and 
understanding o; the soul-mind, we are 
brought into contact with truth and it is re- 
vealed to us with full understanding. 



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Divine Mind and Divine Intelligence is in 
harmony with and in possession of all truth; 
and when we come into harmony with the 
Divine Principle through the law of spiritual 
unfoldment and the application of the true 
principle of inspiration, we are also in har- 
mony with Divine Mind and truth is reveal- 
ed to us without experience or tribulation. 

''And one of the elders answer edy saying 
unto me, What are these which are arrayed in 
white robes? and whence came theyf And I 
said unto him. Sir, thou knowest. And he 
said to mcy These are they which came out of 
great tribulation, and have washed their robes, 
and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and 
serve him day and night in his temple; and he 
that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among 
them. They shall hunger no more, neither 
thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on 
them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is 
in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and 
shall lead them unto living fountains of waters , 
and God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes.'' 



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These passages of Scripture depict the 
reward of those who shall successfully ac- 
complish truth and have truth revealed un- 
to them through the trials of tribulation. 
Those who undergo trials and tribulation 
are subject to three grave dangers : Sorrow 
sometimes hardens the heart and develops 
unbelief; ignorant mind and incorrect idea 
are prone to suppose that God would not 
permit sorrow for disobedience. Ofttimes 
those who lose their loved ones in the prime 
of life conclude that a just God would not 
take their loved ones from them. Thus, be- 
cause they do not have proper faith in the 
wisdom of Divine Intelligence, they permit 
ignorant mind and incorrect idea to confirm 
disbelief in God. 

Sometimes, under the stress and burden, 
of sorrow, the individual develops the belief 
in fatalism which is a dangerous expression 
of ignorant mind and incorrect idea. Fatal- 
ism encourages poeple to say that what is to 
be will be, and to conclude that it is not nec- 
essary for them as individuals to attend to 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 201 

the affairs of the salvation and unfoldment 
of their individual souls. 

Of ttimes the distress of sorrow causes the 
individual to develop a consciousness of re- 
bellion against God. Rebellion encourages 
one to deny that against which he rebels, and 
supplant the will of God with his individual 
incorrect idea, as ignorant mind. 

Truth never wages battle. Inspiration 
of truth can only come to an individual 
through sorrow and tribulation when faith 
is awakened in that individual soul-mind 
and consciousness, and he is willing to say: 
''Nevertheless, not my willy but thine, be done.'' 
When tribulation and sorrow awakens our 
faith, the truth that Infinite Mind is able to 
protect us in the midst of the greatest sor- 
rows, trials, temptations, and tribulations, is 
revealed to us. It is then that our robes are 
made pure and white through the sacrifice 
for the cause of righteousness. '[He that 
over Cometh shall inherit all things,'' 

To him who is able to undergo sorrow and 
tribulation and withstand sin and tempta- 



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tion, clinging to the Divine Idea with un- 
quenchable faith, will be given the reward of 
eternal salvation and happiness. Then will 
be revealed to him the unsurpassable power of 
God to protect those who beheve and trust 
Him. 

Revelation through experience comes to 
him who with faith and patience is willing 
to overcome failure and continuously cling 
to experiment and a desire for truth and un- 
derstanding until the revelation of truth is 
attained. Experience is a hard task-master. 
Experience demands that we immediately 
use the knowledge which we gain day by day 
that we may gather more knowledge, and 
progress and grow. Experience forces us 
into the field of action. Experience de- 
mands that we fulfill our mission in the world ; 
that we fulfill the law to the last farthing, 
and stand spotless before the throne in robes 
of attainment. 

The way of experience is long and filled 
with many hardships, and was symbolized 
by the crown of thorns which Jesus wore 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 203 

when standing before Pilate. ''The way of 
transgressors is hard;'' but woe unto him 
who will not listen to the lesson of experi- 
ence; his sorrows, his trials, and tribulations 
shall come in double measure; but blessed 
shall he be who shall come by the way of 
experience and come out whole and right- 
eous. God has fixed the law of righteousness, 
and given us a pattern to work by, and we 
can not attain eternal life and happiness un- 
til we have overcome every temptation and 
passed every test. Should God forgive us 
for our transgressions, and excuse us from 
becoming whole, we could never become per- 
fect. God never tempts us — temptation is 
the product of ignorant mind. 

The attainment of truth through the way 
of inspiration avoids association with sor- 
row and the hardships of experience. Jesus 
taught: Blessed are the poor in spirit , and 
they that mourn, for theirs is the kingdom of 
Heaven, and they shall be comforted. For they 
come through the way of tribulation. And : 
Blessed are the peace-makers who are perse- 



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cuted for righteousness sake, and against whom 
men shall revile, persecute, and say all manner 
of evil, and testify falsely, for they shall he 
called the children of God. For theirs is the 
kingdom of Heaven, and they shall rejoice and 
he exceeding glad, for great is their reward in 
Heaven. For they come through the way of 
experience. And: Blessed are the meek, and 
they which do hunger and thirst after righteous- 
ness, and who are merciful, and who are pure 
in heart, for they shall inherit the earth, and 
they shall he filled] and they shall ohtain mer- 
cy, for hey shall see God, And they come 
through the path of inspiration. These are 
the salt of the earth; they are the light of 
the world. No man can serve two masters. 
The reality of righteousness is indeed 
mere folly to those who are bound in ig- 
norant mind; but to the wise who are in the 
path of eternal salvation it is the very power 
of God. Jesus said: ''They that he whole 
need not a physician, hut they that are sick. 
But go ye and learn what that meaneth; I 
will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 205 

not come to call the righteous, hut sinners to 
repentance.'' 

The great mission of revelation is to re- 
veal truth to the ungodly and knowledge to 
the ignorant. It is folly to put new wine 
into old bottles, but it is wisdom to cleanse 
the bottle and preserve the wine. 

Jesus commanded that all preach the gos- 
pel of righteousness, heal the sick, cleanse 
the leper, raise the dead, cast out devils ; and 
promised that as we give freely so shall we 
receive freely. He who is fulfilling his mis- 
sion in the world will be provided with all 
that is necessary to properly do his work; 
and though he will be criticised by those 
who are bound in ignorant mind, the spirit 
of truth will provide all wisdom. 

That which we receive in secret we should 
give out in public When you hear the 
angel of light whispering truth to your inner 
consciousness, go forth and preach it from 
the housetops. When truth is revealed to 
us, we are ordained to go forth and teach it 
to others, sacrificing all that presumes to 



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deny truth, realizing the responsibility of a 
prophet to carry the cross of righteousness, 
and rendering full service to the least of 
God's children; realizing that a righteous 
man shall receive a righteous man's reward, 
and that no man shall know the Father until 
the Son shall have been revealed unto him. 
Revelation of truth teaches us to lift the 
children of God out of the counsel of ignor- 
ance, to strengthen their faith, and encour- 
age obedience. The most nobl^e service we 
can render our Creator is to bring light and 
understanding into a dark and ignorant mind. 
We cannot remove ignorance with ignor- 
ance — a house divided against itself cannot 
stand; but when truth is revealed to us, ig- 
norance disappears and is no more. When 
we reveal truth to others, we are fulfilling the 
mission of a servant of truth. When we pros- 
titute knowledge or virtue, we are building 
our house upon the sand. A lifeless tree 
will never bear fruit. A crushed blossom 
cannot mature. An unrighteous or ignorant 
mind cannot reveal truth. Spiritual unfold- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 207 

ment brings us into harmony and attune 
with Divine Mind, and understanding is our 
reward. 

Knowledge brings righteousness and right- 
eousness brings eternal happiness. He who 
has never known the peace and joy of un- 
derstanding has not yet entered into life or 
its reality. He who has once known the 
peace and joy of understanding can never 
again be happy while violating the laws of 
his Creator. If we would work in the vine- 
yard of righteousness, we must go also into 
the field of unrighteousness, and uproot the 
weeds and preserve the flowers. The weeds 
are the thoughts of ignorant mind ; the flow- 
ers are the inspiration, thoughts, and revela- 
tion of truth to mankind. 

He who presumes to teach others is re- 
sponsible, both here and hereafter, to those 
who accept and believe his doctrine, until 
their minds and understanding have been 
corrected to conform with truth and right- 
eousness. We cannot avoid this responsi- 
bility, because our every act has its influ- 



2o8 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

ence upon the lives of others. A teacher 
in this world cannot pass beyond the effect 
of his teachings in the next world until he 
has atoned with every soul who has followed 
his teachings. ''Where the tree falleth, there 
it shall he,'' ''Wherefore hy their fruits ye 
shall know them.'' 

If the children of this world could fully 
realize the deep remorse, sorrow, and regret 
which burns in the consciousness of those 
who pass beyond the physical body, and who 
failed to fulfill their mission in the world, 
and violated the commandments and laws 
as taught to the world by Jesus, they would 
not waste their lives as did the prodi- 
gal son, in riotous or sensational living, but 
would immediately accept and practice the 
simple teachings of Jesus: to worship and 
serve but one God, and love their neighbor 
as themselves, avoiding idleness, intemper- 
ance, and licentiousness, and demonstrating 
their sincerity by serving the world in ac- 
cordance with the talent given them, and 
thus fulfilling their mission to their Creator. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 209 

When we realize the greatness of this re- 
sponsibility upon the individual, how much 
greater is the responsibility of him who pre- 
sumes to be a teacher, and who casts aside 
or suppresses the wonderful reality of spir- 
itual unfoldment and development, the law 
of hea!ling, the law of righteousness and un- 
selfish prosperity, and the reality of right- 
eous spiritual communion. 

It is folly to expect to induce or command 
the Holy Spirit to inspire us through creed 
or ceremony. But faith in God and obedi- 
ence to His laws, understanding the teach- 
ings and demonstrations of Jesus, will purify 
the physical man and educate the mental 
man and liberate the spiritual man, bringing 
us into harmony and a perfect consciousness 
of all truth. 

.The realization that all things are pos- 
sible with God, and are for all who are in 
harmony with His will, and who are obedient 
to His laws, teaches us to realize the value 
of righteousness, the power of the law of 
healing and prosperity, and the reality of 



2IO SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

the law of spiritual communion, and that 
all eternity is now. When we unfold and 
develop our soul mind, it becomes a reality 
now and forever. 

'* The kingdom of Heaven is like unto leaven, 
which a woman took, and hid in three measures 
of meal, until the whole was leavened.'' But 
great will be the sorrow of those who fail to 
leaven their soul with righteousness before 
passing into the valley of death. 

Understanding is the secret of salvation 
and eternal happiness. Bach individual soul 
must attain individual understanding by 
concentration and study of the words of the 
Master and His disciples as they are re- 
corded in Divine Writ. 

We must realize and understand that the * 
three measures of meal symbolize the phys- 
ical man, the mental man, and the spiritual 
man, and that the leaven is the power of 
spiritual unfoldment, which brings us inspira- 
tion and understanding, and, when applied 
in harmony with the law of righteousness, 
brings us health, happiness, and consciousr 
ness of the reality of life eternal. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 211 

Jesus taught that it is not that which 
goes into the mouth, but that which comes 
out of the mind, which defiles a man. Those 
who teach the world to accept error will 
reap the reward of ignorant mind ; those 
who teach the world to accept truth will reap 
the reward of the righteous. But Jesus said : 
''A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh 
after a sign; and there shall no sign be given 
unto ity hut the sign of the prophet Jonas,' To 
expect or demand a sign from Heaven merely 
to satisfy the curious is to prostitute the 
gifts of God. But he who goes forth into 
the field of action, and who labors in the 
vineyard of righteousness with faith, seek- 
ing understanding, and living each day the 
knowledge which he has, will be rewarded 
with a sign from Heaven when it is neces- 
sary in the fulfillment of his mission in the 
world. 

In the final demonstrations of His life, 
Jesus said: ''Not my willy hut thine y he 
done,'' His faith in God, and His under- 
standing of Divine law enabled Him to over- 



212 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

come the universal belief in death and dem- 
onstrate the law of eternal life. He demon- 
strated the law of eternal life through spir- 
itual communion with the disciples after 
passing beyond the physical body, convincing 
them by the testimony of His knowledge and 
command over physical structure and with 
words of consolation and wisdom. 

When we have been given the sign con- 
vincing us that life is eternal^ we can no longer 
hide behind creed or ceremony or depend up- 
on others to do our work for us. To confess 
Christ before the world means more than to 
testify in public that we believe in Him, but 
demands that we proceed without delay to 
perform our mission in the world. Jesus 
gave us this truth in the parable when He 
said: ''A certain man had two sons; and he 
came to the firsts and said, Son, go work to-day 
in my vineyard. He answered and said, I 
will not: but afterward he repented, and went. 
And he came to the second, and said likewise. 
And he answered and said, I go, sir: and 
went not.'' We must answer the command 
of revelation as soon as it is received. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 213 

We must render unto Cgesar the things 
which are C'^sar's, and unto God the things 
that are God's. Therefore, while we should 
reaHze that the purification of the physical 
man gives us health, and the education of the 
mental man gives us understanding, and the 
liberation of the spiritual man brings us into 
harmony with truth, yet we must not deny 
that sin has its penalty; that dissipation 
brings suffering; that ignorance brings sor- 
row; that disobedience brings regret and re- 
morse; that disbelief binds us in the con- 
sciousness of ignorant mind; while purifica- 
tion brings health and education brings un- 
derstanding, obedience brings joy and faith 
brings development and unfoldment of the 
spiritual or soul entity. 

It is not the denial of matter or physical 
structure, of the law of healing, of spiritual 
communion that will save the world, but 
it is teaching mankind to understand, to re- 
alize and comprehend the simple story and 
the wonderful demonstration of Jesus of 
Nazareth in healing the sick, correcting ig- 



214 SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 

norant mind, and teaching truth with under- 
standing to those who desire and seek the 
ways of righteousness. 

Jesus said: ''God is not the God of the 
deady hut of the living.'' The living are those 
who have been raised through faith into a 
consciousness of truth, and who are upon 
the highway of understanding, ever atten- 
tive to the call of duty, and who, as they 
work and serve, await the call and command 
of the Master to enter the reality of eter- 
nal life. 

As we travel the highway of truth and 
righteousness we will witness much of the 
struggle of ignorant mind, encounter many 
teachers of error, and those who prophesy 
out of ignorance, turmoil, and confusion; 
we will find many who have disregarded the 
teachings of Jesiis, otheis claiming Divine 
ordination, and some who seek to be wor- 
shiped as a savior of the world, and who 
claim to have a sign from Heaven at their 
command, and who can heal the sick and 
commune with spirits, and claim themselves 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 215 

to be greater in truth, righteousness, and 
demonstrations than Jesus of Nazareth, and 
who shall invoke many powers for their 
persoiial glorification, setting themselves up 
against the followers of Jesus ; and they shall 
prophesy famine, pestilence, a^d earthquakes 
of which shall come to pass, and shall foretell 
affliction, confusion, turmoil, and death to 
be visited upon their disciples, and shall 
many times set one against another, inciting 
warfare, revenge, and strife among the peo- 
ple. Because of their wickedness many 
shall tire on the highway of righteousness; 
yet we must move onward with faith, judg- 
ment, and mercy, helping those who are poor 
and despised, providing food for the hungry 
and clothes for the naked, remembering that : 
^^He that shall endure unto the end, the same 
shall he saved J* 

Jesus said: ''All manner of sin and blas- 
phemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the 
blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be 
forgiven unto men.'* ''But if the salt have lost 
his saltness, wherewith will ye season it?*' 



2i6 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

The greatest sin in the world is to deny 
physical expression to the human soul. 

When we refuse or fail to heed the Holy 
Ghost, or a spirit of hfoliness, our revelations 
cease to be in harmony with truth, and are 
worthless ; and if we teach them to men, and 
mankind shall accept and believe them, we 
shall suffer the penalty. Jesus taught this 
great lesson when He condemned the fig tree, 
and said: ''Let no fruit grow on thee hence- 
forward forever,'' The fruit of righteousness 
is to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal 
the broken-hearted, to teach deliverance to 
those who are bound by ignorant mind, to 
bring understanding to those who do not 
understand, and to teach and practice the 
simple story and demonstrations of Jesus of 
Nazareth. 

Jesus said: ''Notwithstanding in this re- 
joice notj that the spirits are subject unto you; 
hut rather rejoice, because your names are 
written in heaven.'' 

Because there is so much misunderstand- 
ing, confusion, and difference of opinion, 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 217 

creed, and formality in the world, many peo^ 
pie are unable to decide what the require- 
ments of salvation are. The substantial re- 
quirements are: faith, belief, virtue, unself- 
ishness, kindness, truthfulness, honesty, rev- 
erence, humbleness, sincerity, meekness, pure 
thinking, charity, temperance, and steadfast- 
ness, understanding that: ''Pure religion and 
unde filed before God and the Father is this: 
To visit the fatherless and widows in their af- 
fliction, and to keep himself unspotted from 
the world,'' 

The gifts of obedience and understanding 
are: faith, wisdom, healing, the working of 
miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, di- 
verse kinds of tongues, interpretation of 
tongues, with the knowledge that every 
soul should be subject unto the higher powers, 
for there is no power but God. ''The powers 
that be are ordained of God. Whosoever there- 
fore resisteth the power , resisteth the ordinance 
of God: and they that resist shall receive to 
themselves damnation . ' ' 

Therefore it is essential that we follow 



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that which is good, pray without ceasing, 
rejoice and give thanks, quench not the 
'Spirit, despise not prophesying, prove all 
things, and hold fast to that which is good, 
abstain from the appearance of evil, and be 
ever faithful unto righteousness. We must 
not beguile ourselves and lose our reward 
by a voluntary humility and worshiping of 
angels, intruding into that which we have 
not seen, being deceived by ignorant mind. 
Jesus said: *'Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye 
have taken away the key oj knowledge: ye en- 
tered not in yourselves f and them that were en- 
tering in ye hindered.'' It is folly to suppress 
revelation coming from Divine Intelligence. 

The Apostle Paul said: *'For I am per- 
suaded^ that neither death, nor life, nor angels, 
nor principalities, nor powers, nor things pres- 
ent, nor things to come, nor height, nor depiU, 
nor any other creature, shall he able to separate 
us from the laue of God, which is in Christ 
Jesus our Lord.'* 

Many have been convinced of the reality 
of life by the manifestations of phenomena 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 219 

and the demonstrations of spiritual power. 
When Nathanael came to Jesus, he beheld 
Him while He was under the fig tree, before 
he was in the range of vision of the natural 
eye^ and because Nathanael believed, Jesus 
said unto him: ''Verily, verily , I say unto 
you, Hereafter ye shall see Heaven open, and 
the angels of God ascending and descending 
upon the Son of Man,'' But we are warned 
th^t we must not make the Father's house 
a house of merchandise. We must not per- 
mit the manifestations of spiritual powers 
to satisfy mere curiosity or for personal gain 
or glorification. 

The demonstration of psychic phenomena 
and mental psychology do not depend upon 
the accepting of the teachings of Jesus Christ ; 
but a man must be born again before he can 
see the kingdom of God. We must be born 
of water and of the Spirit before we can en- 
ter into the kingdom of God. Water is the 
symbol of purification and spirit is the sym- 
bol of understanding. That which is born of 
the body is physical, that which is born of 



220 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

the mind is psychic, that which is born of the 
Spirit is spiritual. 

Those who manifest, teach, and demon- 
strate truth become the light of the world. 
Those who do right and teach truth are the 
resurrection of life, and those who do wrong 
and teach error are the resurrection of dam- 
nation. Je^us said: ''I can of mine own 
self do nothing,'' ''If I hear witness of my- 
self y my witness is not true,'' ''I am the way, 
the truth y and the life," ''I am that bread of 
life," The children of Israel ate the manna 
from Heaven yet died ; but revelation is that 
bread which comes down from Heaven; and 
a man who eats bread which comes from 
Heaven should never die. 

It is the Spirit which quickens; thfe flesh 
is as nothing. That which comes through 
the Spirit is the foundation of life eternal. 
**y^ shall know the truth, and the truth shall 
make you free" 

Jesus taught that all are the children of 
God when He said : 

''Is it not written in your law, I said. Ye 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 221 

are gods? If he called them godsy unto whom 
the word of God came, dnd the scripture can- 
not he broken; say ye of Mm, whom the Father 
hath sanctified, and sent intp the world, Thou 
blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of 
God? If I do not the works of my Father, be- 
lieve me not. But if I do, though ye believe 
not me, believe the works: that ye may know, 
and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in 
Him, 

''If ye love me, keep my commandments. 
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give 
you another Comforter, that he may abide with 
you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom 
the world cannot receive, because it seeth him 
not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; 
for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you, 
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come 
to you. Yet a little while, and the world 
seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I 
live, ye shall also live. At that day ye shall 
know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, 
and I in you.'' 

''But when the Comforter is come, whom I 



222 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

will send unto you from the Father, even the 
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the 
Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also 
shall hear witness, because ye have been with 
me from the beginning.'' 

'*And when he is come, he will reprove the 
world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judg- 
ment. Of sin, because they believe not on me; 
of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and 
ye see me no more; of judgment, because the 
prince of this world is judged.'' 

^^Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is 
come, he will guide you into all truth: for he 
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he 
shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will 
shew you things to come." 

When Jesus returned unto the disciples 
after the crucifixion to demonstrate to them 
the reality of spiritual power and eternal life, 
unto Thomas He said: ''Thomas, because 
thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed 
are they that have not seen, and yet have be- 
lieved." And unto Simon, son of Jonas, he 
said: ''Feed my sheep" And unto Peter he 
said: ''Follow me" 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 223 

We are taught by the Apostle Paul that 
a teacher should be the husband of one wife — 
virtuous, sober, peaceful, courteous, apt in 
teaching, temperate, patient, unselfish, and 
one that can rule well in his own house. He 
must not be a novice or a propouhder of or- 
iginal doctrine. He must be well behaved 
and of good reputation, ever preaching truth 
as God shall have ordained. But some shall 
destroy faith and heed seducing spirits and 
doctrines of devils, whose teachings lie in 
their hypocrisy, having their consciousness 
seared with a hot iron; forbidding mar- 
riage, and commanding to abstain from 
meat, which God created to be received with 
thanksgiving by those who believe and know 
the truth. 

Nevertheless, we must not neglect the 
gifts which are given us by prophecy — the 
laying on of hands, the healing of the sick, 
the accepting and teaching of revelation 
from the Spirit of truth, the study of the 
Scriptures, the communion with angels, the 
commanding of ignorant spirits to the cause 



224 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

of righteousness, to open their eyes and to 
turn them from darkness unto light and from 
the power of Satan unto God, that they may 
receive forgiveness of sins and the inheritance 
with them who are sanctified by faith in 
Christ. God is no respecter of persons and 
has no favorites, though penalty is not made 
for the righteous, but for those who are in 
sin and ignorance. The righteous are buried 
with Christ and baptized by His death, that 
they m.ay arise also in the likeness of His 
resurrection. Those who know that Christ 
was raised from the dead to die no more 
shall no longer be subject to death. ''If the 
Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from 
the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ 
from, the dead shall also quicken your mortal 
bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you,'' 

This Spirit shall also help our infirmi- 
ties and make intercession to the saints ac- 
cording to. the will of God. But we must 
avoid them who cause divinations and of- 
fenses contrary to the doctrine of truth that 
was taught and demonstrated by Jesus of 
Nazareth. 



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The Apostle Paul said: ''For Christ sent 
me not to baptize^ hut to preach the gospel: not 
with wisdom of words y lest the cross of Christ 
should he made of none effect,'' ''For other 
foundation can no man lay than that is laid, 
which is Jesus Christ ^ 

The direct avenues of revelation are faith, 
desire, thought, suggestion, and communion. 
We must have faith in God, desire for under- 
standing, thoughts of truth, suggestions of 
good, and communion with saints. 

The activity of mind is finite or infinite, 
mortal or immortal, objective and subject- 
ive, conscious and sub-conscious, material or 
spiritual, ignorant or perfect, human and 
Divine. Human mind is limited, while Di- 
vine Mind is unlimited. Faith, desire, sug- 
gestion, thought, and spiritual communion 
form the bridge over which we may pass 
from the limited consciousness to the unlimit- 
ed consciousness. 

Where we find God, we find reality, truth, 
purity, health, prosperity, and understand- 
ing, which bring eternal life and happiness. 



226 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

What we are and what we are to be depends 
' on what and how we think. When we think 
thoughts of limitation, the highway of life 
will close before us; when we think thoughts 
of truth, health, prosperity, and happiness, 
and continue to move forward, the way will 
ever open before us. Faith overcomes fear, 
desire opens up the way, thought creates the 
new things of life, suggestion adds to our 
store-house of understanding, and commun- 
ion brings us in touch with God, His angels, 
and our fellow-men. 

When we think and speak truth, the 
power of the universe is behind us. The In- 
finite Spirit of God fills all things and works 
continuously for those who are in harmony 
with truth. Man is spiritual — created in 
the image and likeness of God. That the 
manifestations of natural law, physical law, 
mental law, and psychic law are not the 
product of finite mind is proven, because 
finite mind cannot and does not understand 
them. 

When man comes into harmony with the 



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reality of his own spiritual entity and in 
harmony and communion with God and His 
Divine angels, he can then understand the 
manifestations of these laws. 

That which appears to mortal mind as re- 
ality, when man does not understand Di- 
vine law, are the manifestations of ignorant 
mind and error, and can have no power over 
those in harmony with Divine law. Truth 
cannot be at war with error; but when truth 
is understood, error cannot exist. There is 
no pardon for the violation of the laws of 
truth, and the antidote for ignorance is un- 
derstanding, which keeps the law of truth. 
He who understands realizes that all things 
are possible with God. 

The mission of Jesus of Nazareth was to 
teach men how to work out their own sal- 
vation and through His demonstration to 
arouse their faith, that mankind may come 
to know the reality of eternal life. We must 
atone for ignorance with understanding, ei- 
ther before or after we have passed beyond 
the physical body. Jesus was always able 



228 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

to demonstrate the law of truth, because He 
was in constant communion with Divine 
Mind; and while they were able to crucify 
His physical body, He returned to the dis- 
ciples in His spiritual body, and in their ig- 
norance of Divine and spiritual law they were 
unable to recognize Him. But when Jesus 
demonstrated His power over physical struc- 
ture, and showed the nail-holes in His hands, 
even Thomas believed; while he who at- 
tempted to betray truth through ignorance 
wrought his own punishment. 

Thus we are taught the lesson that illu- 
sion disappears as reality appears. All the 
ideas of reality are within the consciousness 
of Divine Mind. God is spirit and man is 
spiritual. The soul of man is a manifesta- 
tion of the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God 
and the principle of life have no limitations. 
When the Spirit of God manifests in man, he 
is in communion with all things which are 
in harmony with truth. When manifest- 
ing spiritually, he can commune with God 
and His angels; but we must not confuse 



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the visions of ignorant mind with spiritual 
revelation. 

''When we can awaken ourselves out of 
the belief that all must die, we can then 
exercise Jesus' spiritual power to reproduce 
the presence of those who may have thought 
they had died/' and raise their consciousness 
into the understanding of eternal life. 

When we attain this understanding of 
God's law, we can recognize those who have 
passed beyond the physical body in a knowl- 
edge of life eternal, who are enjoying life by 
virtue of their faith in Christ and His dem- 
onstrations. 

When we bring ourselves into harmony 
with truth we are able to receive the thoughts 
of thase who are in harmony with truth, 
though they reside in the higher Heaven. 
But we cannot commune with those who are 
in a spiritual consciousness in this world or 
the next until we ourselves have developed 
our own spiritual understanding. We can- 
not commune with God until we have estab- 
lished our faith in Him. Spirit is infinite 



230 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

and immortal, whether manifesting in man 
or in God; and man is only limited by his 
ignorance and misunderstanding of spirit- 
ual law. 

Eternal happiness comes through the law 
of righteousness. To speak by inspiration 
or through revelation, or to prophesy, or to 
demonstrate communion in an unrighteous 
tongue, though it may indicate the pres- 
ence of a mighty power, it does not point out 
the way to truth or teach mankind the secret 
of salvation. It is better to speak a few 
words that can be understood than to de- 
liver a great oration in words without mean- 
ing. The Scriptures say that: 

''If therefore the whole church he come to- 
gether into one place, and all speak with 
tongues, and there come in those that are un- 
learned, or unbelievers, will they not say that 
ye are mad? But if all prophesy, and there 
come in one that believeth not, or one un- 
learned, he is convinced of all, he is judged 

of aiir 

''For ye may all prophesy one by one, that 



SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 231 

all may learn, and all may he comforted. And 
the spirits of the prophets are subject to the 
prophets. For God is not the author of con- 
fusion, hut of peace, as in all churches of 
the saints,'' 

''Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy ^ 
and forhid not to speak with tongues. Let all 
things he done decently and in order.'' 

It is not necessary, in demonstrating 
Spiritual Science, to become subject to un- 
conscious spirit control. We are taught in 
the Scriptures: ''Regard not them that have fa- 
miliar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to he 
defiled hy them: I am the Lord your God," 

A familiar spirit is one who assumes au- 
thority and who takes away the possibility 
of individual spiritual unfoldment. When a 
spirit assumed authority and demanded con- 
trol, Jesus cast him out. 

The demonstration of Spiritual Science 
comes to those who are able, through the 
law of spiritual communion and individual 
unfoldment, to attain that consciousness and 
understanding wherein they are able to co- 
operate with righteous spirit beings. 



232 SPIRITUAL SCIENCK. 

The Scriptures say: 

^'For the weapons of our warfare are not 
carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling 
down of strongholds; casting down imagina- 
tions, and every high thing that exalteth itself 
against the knowledge of God, and bringing 
into captivity every thought to the obedience of 
Christr 

''But as then he that was born after the flesh 
persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, 
even so it is now.^* 

''Now the works of the flesh are manifest, 
which are these: adultery, fornication, un- 
cleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, 
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, se- 
ditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunken- 
ness, revellings, 

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, 
peace, long - suffering, gentleness, goodness, 
faith, meekness, temperance; against such there 
is no law.'' 

"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in 
the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain 
glory, provoking one another, envying one 
another.'' 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 233 

''But let every man prove his own work, 
and then shall he have rejoicing in himselj 
alone, and not in another. For every man 
shall hear his own burden.'' 

Spiritual Science is the developing of one's 
own soul — coming into harmony with truth 
and understanding. When we come into the 
true knowledge of Christ, we are given the 
Spirit of wisdom and revelation. But we 
must not permit corrupt communications to 
proceed out of our mouth, biit only that 
which is good, and which will edify those 
who hear. ''For the fruit of the Spirit is in 
all goodness and righteousness and truth; prov- 
ing what is acceptable unto the Lord. And 
have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of 
darkness, but rather reprove them." We must 
understand that only good is of God. The 
sword of Spiritual Science is the word of God. 
It does not wrestle against flesh and blood, 
but against piincipalities, rulers of darkness, 
and wickedness in high places. It is only 
those things which are true, honest, just, 
pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, and 



234 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

worthy of praise which are profita:ble for 
our silent meditation. 

The knowledge of Christ will destroy him 
who is deceptive and unrighteous, though 
he is able to work signs and lying wonders, 
opposing truth, and exalting himself above 
all that is called God, and showing himself 
that he is God. But unto him who shall 
worship the one, eternal, immortal, and in- 
visible God, all wise, holding faith in Christ, 
shall be honor and glory for ever and ever. 
And he will bear witness, both with signs and 
wonders and with divers miracles and gifts 
of the Holy Ghost according to His will. 



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Chapte;r X. 



KABAI.A. 

To the perfect man, through the gifts of 
God and faith in Jesus Christy understanding 
the laws of truth and God's word, demonstrating 
the laws of love and service for the upbuilding 
of mankind, for the glory of God, is revealed 
the testimony of the Divine Principle, and the 
manifestation of man a spiritual being, and 
the perfect recognition of God as the Creator of 
the universe, reflecting Divine Life, Love, Light, 
and Law. 

Kabala is understanding the allness of 
God and the oneness of spirit, and that soul 
is the individual manifestation of spirit 
through the reflection of God, and that mind 
is the manifestation of soul, and that phys- 
ical structure is the manifestation of mind. 
Spirit is the essence of life, the manifestation 
of the Father. Soul is the essence of love 
and the manifestation of the Son. Mind is 
the essence of light and the manifestation of 



2^6 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

the Holy Ghost. Physical structure is a 
manifestation of law and the objective re- 
flection of Divinity. 

To understand physical structure and sub- 
stance is to understand ourselves and the law 
of our creation. 

To understand mind is to understand 
that power within ourselves which makes 
growth and expansion possible. 

To understand soul is to understand our 
individual entity and eternal continuity. 

To understand spirit is to understand 
our relation to and the allness of God our 
Creator. 

We must first understand ourselves be- 
fore we can understand our relation to our 
fellow-men. 

Business is as much a part of truth as 
religion, and both, when brought into har- 
mony with truth, become one and the same. 

We must first understand our relation 
to our fellow-men before we can understand 
our relation to our Creator. When we com- 
prehend ourselves, our relation to our fellow- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 237 

men, and our dependency upon God, this 
understanding must give us health, pros- 
perity, and happiness. Health is to function 
physical structure and substance in harmony 
with God's objective law. Prosperity is to 
command and direct thought in harmony 
with God's Divine will. Happiness is the 
satisfaction of a soul in the performing of 
its mission. 

There are certain cardinal principles 
which must be cultivated and developed in 
the individual consciousness to bring that 
understanding known as the ''consciousness 
of Kabala." We will give these cardinals 
alphabetically, rather than in the order of 
their importance — in fact, it would be very 
difficult to recite these principles in the or- 
der of their importance, as they are all es- 
sential. As one part of a perfect machine 
is as essential as any other part, so it is 
with the attributes of a perfect man. ''But 
many that are first shall he last, and the last 
shall he fir sty 



238 SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 

Attitude is essential to understanding. 
Attitude is both mental and spiritual. It 
either affirms truth and denies error or ac- 
cepts error as truth. We can rise no higher 
in life than our attitude toward life. We 
can come no closer to our fellow-men than 
our attitude toward them. Success begins 
with right attitude. Bach individual soul 
has absolute control over his attitude. We 
cannot travel so far away as to leave attitude 
behind. Neither distance nor time will en- 
able us to get away from ourselves; and no 
matter where or how we go, self must go 
along. Thus, we may be healthy, prosper- 
ous, or happy in proportion to right attitude 
toward health, prosperity, and happiness. 

When attitude affirms truth with under- 
standing and atones for error, the result is 
attainment. Attitude y affirmation , atonement , 
and attainment are four cardinals of individual 
development. 

Attitude fixes our direction for us. Af- 
firmation makes a path wherein we can walk. 
Atonement is desiring to walk the straight 
and narrow way, becoming the message- 



SPIRITUAL SCIKNCE. 239 

bearer of restitution. Attainment is finding 
and performing our mission. 

It is wonderful to attain that conscious- 
ness wherein we comprehend and reaUze the 
object and purpose of life, understanding 
how to accomplish that which we are sent 
to do. 



Belief is an important requisite of indi- 
vidual development. Belief is of two kinds: 
blind belief, which is credulous; and right 
belief, which seeks wisdom and understand- 
ing and sustains individual balance. Bible 
study is the foundation of right belief and 
the beginning of wisdom and understanding. 
We must begin with belief and continue on 
until we reach knowledge. 

Belief leads us into the pathway of ex- 
periment, and experiment into demonstra- 
tion, and demonstration is success. These 
conditions apply to every activity and reach 
into every avenue of our lives. 

When we have reached belief founded 



240 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

upon understanding, we cannot fail, no mat- 
ter what we may undertake to do. We are 
then in harmony with the fundamental laws 
of life and the Divine will of our Creator. 



Consciousness is the conception of reality, 
which unfolds the Christ within and gives us 
control and command. Consciousness is ob- 
jective and perceptive. Objective conscious- 
ness is mental and psychic. Perceptive con- 
sciousness is psychic and spiritual. When 
consciousness is able to sacrifice all for under- 
standing, the Christ within has conquered, 
and individual character, capacity, and cour- 
age are created. We must command con- 
sciousness, create capacity, cultivate cour- 
age, and consecrate charity. 

Mankind was created in the consciousness 
of God, and must be completed in the con- 
sciousness of man. As the blossom is sac- 
rificed for the fruit, so must material con- 
sciousness be sacrificed for spiritual con- 
sciousness. This is the law of creation, 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 241 

equalization, progress, and growth. Con- 
duct is the index of consciousness. As a man 
thinks with his mind, so shall he become. 



Desire for truth with demonstration, 
with determination denying error, develops 
demonstration. When the mind is filled with 
a desire for truth and understanding, im- 
purity and selfishness are driven out, just 
as the shadows are driven away by the 
sunlight. 

Desire is just as potent a power in the 
spiritual world as is the law of gravitation 
in the physical world. Were the law of 
gravitation instantly released in Nature, all 
forms of objective phenomena would imme- 
diately cease to exist. 

When desire ceases to be pure and holy, 
the manifestation of the spiritual man be- 
comes impossible. Unselfish desire is the 
most forceful prayer of righteousness. We 
must desi,re health before we can enjoy 
health. We must desire prosperity before 
we can become servants of men. We must 



242 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

desire happiness before we can attain hap- 
piness. 

When we desire in harmony with Divine 
will, we cannot fail. When we learn to si- 
lently deny error and desire truth, we may 
reign supreme in the temple of mastenhood. 



Entity is the essence of existence. Entity 
evolves individual reality and energy. Entity 
overcomes environment and establishes the 
emancipation from err or y eliminating envy 
and entering the environment of education. 
Bach individual must establish tfuth in his 
own life. We cannot be saved because of 
the work done by another, neither can we 
receive pay for the work done by another; 
but each individual entity must perform his 
own work and render his individual service 
to his fellow-men and his Creator. 

Bach individual must atone for his own 
mistakes and restore the injury that he may 
do to others. Bach individual must over- 
come his temptations and establish indi- 



SPIRITUAIv SCIENCE. 243 

vidual reality. We must banish the knowl- 
edge of evil by coming into the knowledge 
of truth and establishing the law of indi- 
vidual command in harmony with Divine 
law. There can be no eternal happiness for 
him who has not awakened the spiritual en- 
tity within himself. Eternal entity is estab- 
lished through the power of creating a high- 
er atmosphere in ourselves, thus developing 
within ourselves the love for higher and better 
things, which state of consciousness brings 
to us that which we need and unfolds the 
spiritual entity within us. 

To cultivate individual spiritual entity, 
we must go into silence and learn to think 
for ourselves — to think in solitude and in 
truth, asking God to help us develop that 
power within us which the Revelator sym- 
bolized by the white stone, which is regenera- 
tion. When you have developed individual 
masterhood, you must then go into the high- 
ways and bjyways to do your service imto 
your fellow-men, or you will forfeit your 



244 SPIRITUAI. SCIENCE. 

masterhood and eternal happiness and indi- 
vidual spiritual entity. 



Faith is to know that God lives, and all 
is well. Faith destroys fear and establishes 
freedom in the soul. Faith expands the 
power of thought, and thought is the first 
form of communion between man and God. 
Faith sustains the physical man in pure liv- 
ing, the mental man in pure thinking, and 
the spiritual man in pure dominion. Faith 
is developed through prayer. The commun- 
ion of man's soul with the All-wise Intelli- 
gence is a reward for faith, anchoring him 
to the Rock of Ages, truth, light, and eter- 
nal life. 

When man emerges into the true con- 
sciousness of righteousness, guided by the 
fatherhood of wisdom, sustained by faith 
and understanding, inspired by love for his 
fellow-men, and illuminated by equilateral 
dominion, he comes under the first law of 
truth, and reaches the sixth cycle of his de- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 245 

velopment. He has been born again, and 
will be able to live and know God's law 
throughout eternity. 



Grace is God's gift to us with which to 
gather goodness, genius, growth, and genera- 
tion. We must gather good by doing good. 
The power of God within us will release all 
mysteries for us, and bring us into perfect 
harmony with ourselves and God's plan for 
mankind. We can of ourselves do nothing; 
we can only work and accomplish as the 
Father works through us. By the grace of 
God we can .become mediums, through 
which truth can work. When we become 
the medium of truth, we are in harmony 
with God and His angels. It requires an 
angel of truth to bear us a message of truth. 
We must be in harmony with truth to re- 
ceive the messenger of truth. 

Because God has given us the privilege 
to know Him and work with Him through 
grace, we must always be reverent and 



246 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

thankful. When we are permitted to see 
beyond the veil and to hear the whispers of 
angels, taste the sweetness of the tree of life, 
touch the realness of everlasting life, scent 
the blessings of eternal justice, and behold 
the omnipresence of the Father, we behold 
His power of goodness. When through 
grace we are permitted these privileges, we 
must cause our lives to stand out as a lighted 
candle that we may help light up the way 
for our fellow-men and lead them into the 
pathway of wisdom, understanding, domin- 
ion, and love. Then we will be the image 
and likeness of God, realizing within our con- 
sciousness that God is love, that God is 
spirit, and that we are spiritual, reflecting 
His likeness through our spirituality a^d 
privilege to live and work by His grace. 



Harmony is the habit of holding healthy 
holiness^ and happiness. Harmony is the 
highway of hope and the household of hap- 
piness. We cannot have happiness until we 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 247 

learn to share it with others. That which 
disputes with itself is never in harmony with 
truth. That which contains confusion, dis- 
order, or lack of purpose is never in harmony 
with truth. We must come into harmony 
with God's plan for the salvation of mankind 
in ord^r that we may attain eternal life. 
Christ was in harmony with God's plan for 
the salvation of mankind. 

Judas Iscariot was out of harmony with 
this Divine plan for the salvation of mankind, 
and when he beheld the physical Cht'ist upon 
the cross of crucifixion in the hands of cruel 
mentality, suffering the agonies of physical 
death, and because Christ did not rely upon 
physical phenomena to save Him from the 
agonies of sacrifice, but prayed ''Thy will he 
done,'' then the God of Judas was lost to 
him and he wen,t and hanged himself; while 
Christ, because of His belief in spirituality, 
was brought forth from the grave, able to 
manifest before men. 

Those who believe that their higher 
physical development, their higher mental 



248 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

development, phenomena, the power to heal 
the sick, or even to raise the dead, will sus- 
tain them in the hour of temptation, like 
Judas Iscariot, must fail. Those who be- 
lieve in the powers of spirituality, and re- 
alize that the true man is spiritual, and that 
phenomena and mentality are only instru- 
ments, and who, like the Christ, are willing 
to trust the wisdom and justice of God, 
knowing that all things which manifest into 
the higher come from the Father, and who 
are willing to pray ''Thy will be done' and 
suffer the crucifixion of all temporal things, 
knowing that spirituality is in harmony with 
God and His Divine will, are building upon 
the Rock of Ages, and will, through faith 
and the power of harmony, be able to sustain 
life throughout all eternity. 

All physical life and its manifestation, 
and all mental light and its manifestation, 
must be brought into harmony with the law 
of spiritual life and consecrated to the har- 
monious belief in God. All things which are 
in harmony with His will and His plan for 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 249 

the continuity of life and the eternal salva- 
tion of men will be sustained throughout 
all eternity. 



Intelligence is the beginning of individu- 
ality. Intelligence is developed out of . in- 
stinct, intuitiony imagination, and inquiry, 
and comes forth as idea, inspiration, initiative, 
and individuality. Individuality is illumin- 
ated by integrity, and integrity is the index 
to individual independence. 

Selfishness, cruelty, and vulgarity pre- 
vent individual unfoldment; while love, 
kindness, and virtue establish individual 
identity. The doctrine of vicarious atone- 
ment encourages selfishness, cruelty, and 
vulgarity; while the teaching of individual 
atonement is to establish love, kindness, and 
virtue. We must be born into the higher 
consciousness of love before we can develop 
our higher powers. lyove is the key which 
unlocks the possibility in vis. Christ demon- 
strated this love when He said, ''Who is my 



250 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

brother?'' When we become conscious of 
the truth that all mankind are our brothers 
and sisters, we are ready for spiritual growth 
and are able to overcome selfishness, cruelty, 
and vulgarity. 



Judgment is the forerunner of justice and 
the foundation of joy. We must become 
able to judge right from wrong before we 
can do right. 

Thought is the highest expression of man, 
but thought without reason becomes chaos. 
We must pass through the trials of Job to 
reach mature judgment. We must balance 
our five senses with judgment and command, 
developing affirmation, realization, concen- 
tration, consciousness, understanding, and 
wisdom, which brings us into the conscious- 
ness of right belief, right thought, right con- 
centration, right meditation, right breathing, 
right living, right loving, right seeing, right 
consciousness, right realization, right affirma- 
tion, and right command. 



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As Jacob struggled with the angel and 
would not let him go until he had blessed 
him, so must we cling to judgment and rea- 
son that we may protect ourselves against 
temptation as we pass through the trials of 
life, unfolding the consciousness of righteous- 
ness and truth. 



Knowledge is power. The human mind 
is able to cope with anything concerning 
which it has knowledge. Divine Intelligence 
is able to guide and direct the laws of the 
universe, because to Divine Intelligence these 
laws are understood. Only as mankind 
comes into a knowledge of these laws can he 
use them for his benefit and betterment. 
However, we must not confuse knowledge 
with intelligence. It requires intelligence to 
gather knowledge. We may have intelli- 
gence without knowledge; but if we apply 
our intelligence with diligence, we must 
eventually come into the possession of 
knowledge and understanding. He who pos- 



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sesses knowledge is both able to command 
and obey. Knowledge is our greatest eternal 
possession. 



Love purifies. Evil cannot exist in the 
presence of love, any more than darkness 
can exist in the presence of sunlight. Love 
cannot be selfish, cruel, or vulgar. Few peo- 
ple realize the power of love. The first com- 
mandment is fulfilled through the law of 
love: To love the Lord God, and our neigh- 
bor as ourself. God is Life, Love, Light, and 
Law. Life creates. Love purifies, Light brings 
knowledge of truth, and Law makes us free. 

We must understand the law of health to 
banish sickness. We must understand the 
law of truth to banish sin. We must under- 
stand the law of prosperity to banish poverty. 

If we turn our thoughts toward the throne 
of Divine Wisdom, our hearts filled with 
love and a knowledge of the law of truth, we 
can reach that consciousness wherein there 
is no selfishness, sickness, and sin. 



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Mind is the master-key to mystery. Mind 
is conscious and subconscious, and is com- 
posed of consciousness, memory, reason, will, 
intellect, and ideas. The development of 
these mind factors is the perfecting of men- 
tality and all mental attributes. Mentality 
is the measurement of progress and growth. 
If we develop the cardinal mental factors in 
harmony with justice, righteousness, cheer- 
fulness, and useful service, all the mental 
attributes will conform to the development 
of the cardinal mental factors. This applied 
both to the development of the conscious and 
subconscious mind. True thought, under- 
standing, and wisdom are the fruits of a 
balanced mind. 

When the mind is perfectly developed, it 
is reflected in the physical body, and others 
can see the imprint of health, courage, 
and happiness upon the physical counte- 
nance. The spirit of man, carnate or ethe- 
real, cannot act through an undeveloped 
mind. Mentality is the forum wherein we 
must work to purify the physical body and 
unfold the soul. 



254 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

Nature is the greatest testimony of the 
intelligence and power of God. We must 
learn to be natural. We cannot manufacture 
the products of Nature. Man can divide 
the acorn into its elements, but he cannot 
grow the oak without planting the acorn, 
and his part in reproducing or sustaining life 
is only mechanical. God has established 
the law of life. Man's part in cultivating 
and preserving life must be in harmony with 
natural law as established by his Creator. 

Christ demonstrated the law of spiritual 
unfoldment, and man to maintain his natural 
state mu,st follow that example with faith, 
understanding, and knowledge, and eternal 
life will be the fruit. 

Man can overcome only through the law, 
and, when regenerated, rises above the first 
law into the consciousness of the higher law, 
which is the law of Divinity. The Holy 
Book will reach man in any state of conscious- 
ness and regenerate him so thd^t he becomes 
a twice-born man. Only then has man ful- 
filled his natural state. 



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Obedience is the originator of opportunity. 
When we disobey the law of truth, we forfeit 
our free moral agency. We cut the thistle 
down and it goes back to help nourish the 
rose. So we must preserve our strength 
through the law of obedience. We cannot 
sow wheat and reap barley, neither can we 
sow iniquity and reap happiness. We can- 
not destroy the law of obedience. Water 
seeks its own level, and he who stands upon 
the hilltop can follow the deluge. We are 
co-equal with God only in so far as we are 
obedient to His will. 



Purity is the pendulum of power, the 
pivot of phenomena, the portal of plenty, the 
practice of patience, and the perquisite of 
philosophy. 

As we journey along the line of develop- 
ment, we must learn to be original, and re- 
tain our own individuality and personality. 
Peter had a vision upon the housetop, but 
he had to go down among the people to do 



256 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

his work. Phenomena or the power of mor- 
tal mind can do wonders. But, mortal mind 
falls and becomes wormwood; phenomena 
must give place to something higher. Christ 
gave a great part of His life to phenomena 
in order to reach and convince those im- 
prisoned in materiality and prove to them 
the real life, which is eternal. But, as a 
little girl with a sweet belief in Santa Claus, 
must lay aside this belief and become 
the real Santa Claus, to come into the true 
realization of motherhood, so must we 
emerge out of the condition wherein we ad- 
mire and worship phenomena and spirit 
control and develop our own spirituality 
so that our own soul may be able to sit 
upon the throne and do its own wonders 
and work its own miracles. 

When we have raised our consciousness 
out of materialism and mortal mind into the 
higher consciousness of spirituality, in per- 
fect harmony with Divine Mind, we have at- 
tained eternal power. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 257 

Quality is the reality cf Nature. We 
must realize that the elements which God 
has created compose that substance and 
quality which He has given us and out of 
which we must make, by His grace, our 
eternal abode. We must not deny quality 
and substance, but learn to eliminate error 
and discover truth, and with that knowledge, 
by the grace of God, control substance and 
quality in ourselves. 



Reality is regenerative reasoning. Re- 
ality does its own thinking. Reality repents 
error and reverences truth, restores relia- 
bility and righteousness, and re-establishes 
revelation. Phenomena lays a foundation 
for the belief in the continuity of life, but 
does not solve the mysteries of God . Un- 
derstanding, will come to us, only through the 
higher concentration and the development 
of pure consciousness. ''And when the seven 
thunders had uttered their voices, I was about 
to write: and I heard a voice from heaven say- 



258 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

ing unto fne, Seal up those things which the 
seven thunders uttered, and write them not.'' 
The seven thunders are the seven senses, out 
of which come phenomena. Thus we are 
taught that we must not preserve or write 
down these things; they are not to be wor- 
shipped; but the understanding, which is 
symbolized by the book, is reality. ''And I 
took the little book out oj the angeV s hand, and 
ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as 
honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly 
was bitter.'' The book brings us understand- 
ing of truth, developing a desire for that 
which is reality. Then we can prophesy in 
truth, and begin to measure the temple of 
God. Then we begin to realize^ — as did Job 
when the angel said, ''There is a spirit in 
man'' — that the seven senses, expressing 
through the manifestation of life, can do 
everything but create and give life — God 
alone can do that. Phenomena can not 
take the place of God and reality. The 
blossom must precede the fruit. Regenera- 
tion must come before spiritual reality; 



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otherwise, there is no spiritual man to pre- 
serve for eternity. Righteousness is the 
sunlight which develops the spiritual blos- 
som of the human soul. 



Suggestion secures spiritual strength and 
steadfastness and is the silent servant of the 
soul. Suggestion is the foundation of scien- 
tific healing. Soul and spirit are correlated. 
God is spirit. Soul is that individual sus- 
taining principle in man through which 
the spirit of God moves, acts, and manifests. 
Suggestion is that power in a man which 
directs the soul. Thought is that power in 
man which controls suggestion. 

When the soul of man is developed and 
unfolded in harmony with thought and sug- 
gestions of truth, the soul manifests through 
the law of inspiration, and brings us revela- 
tion in harmony with Divine Intelligence. 

As the growth of the plant depends upon 
darkness, light, heat, moisture, air, earth, 
and gravitation, so does the unfolding of 



26o SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

the soul depend upon negation, affirmation, 
thought, suggestion, inspiration, and the 
Spirit of God. 

When the individual soul of man can be 
brought into light, he can accomplish a 
greater work through the power of his own 
soul than can any one through the soul of a 
disembodied spirit. 



Thought is the transmitter of truth, the 
try-square of understanding. Thought trans- 
forms temperament into tone, taste, trust, and 
title. Thought is the first form of commun- 
ion between man and God. We begin to 
live when we begin to think. Thoughts of 
fear and doubt are the reflection of ignorant 
mind; they tend to suggest some evil to 
come and destroy us. Thoughts of faith 
and trust are the reflection of Divine Mind 
and tend to raise hope, which builds us up. 

Thought is the only power that can lift 
us out of the consciousness of ignorance and 
establish us upon the foundation of truth. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 261 

Bach individual must do his own thinking. 
The only way we can have intelligence is to 
work for it. No one can do our thinking for 
us. We have been given the power of 
thought in order that we may work out our 
own salvation. .Righteous thought is the 
only power that will uncover truth. 



Understanding unfolds uniformly and 
we uncover universal utility. When we act 
with understanding, God prepares the way. 
Christ overcamie death with victory because 
He understood the law of eternal life. Un- 
derstanding is the reward of righteous 
thought. When we learn to pray with un- 
derstanding, our prayers will be answered. 
We must understand that we can accom- 
plish nothing except by the wih of the Father. 
We may discover the law, but God must 
produce the results of its application. Im- 
pure thought and false prophecy cannot tes- 
tify of truth. Pure thought and true proph- 
ecy unfold understanding and upbuild man- 



262 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

kind. He who attempts to work without 
understanding cannot serve. The past will 
never return, the future may never come. 
But understanding faithfully consecrates the 
now with the most holy service. Under- 
standing lays aside the past and makes the 
most of the now, and trusts God for the 
future. 

Virtue is the vesture of valor , the vicar of 
value y the vista of vision y the vovu of vesper, 
the voice of volition. It is not every one 
who shall say ^'Uord, Lord," who shall enter 
into the kingdom of Heaven, nor every one 
who shall prophesy ; but only those who shall 
preach and prophesy for the glory of God. 
There is only one way that we can know 
who are the false prophets — that is, when 
their prophecy fails to come true. There 
are many who claim to be the Divine repre- 
sentatives of God ; but it is only he who lives 
the humble teachings of Jesus, and who 
uses his powers or talent, whether they be of 
speech, kindness, riches, healing, or prophe- 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 263 

sying for the upbuilding of mankind and the 
glory of his Creator (realizing that he can 
accomplish nothing contrary to the will of 
the Father), who is the instrument of truth 
and the virtuous disciple of righteousness. 
The greatest virtue is to learn how to be 
one's real self. 

Will is the wish of wisdom, which wins 
from weariness and is the wage of watch- 
fulness. The strong will is the commander 
of the physical man, the right will is the 
support of the mental man, and the perfect 
will is the impeUing power of the spirit- 
ual man. When the soul is strengthened 
through will, wisdom, and whole-heartedness, 
it becomes able to stand alone and perform 
its mission in the world. 

When a soul which inhabits a physical 
body steps aside and permits a departed spirit 
to enter that body and do his work for him, 
it is not in harmony with the will of God. 
This is ** developing" contrary to God's plan. 
We should strengthen our own individual 



264 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

will-power and unfold our own soul, so that 
we may become able to co-operate with 
those spirits who may desire to help us in 
our life's work. It does not seem that any 
good can be accomplished when a person 
who is educated and who has a high mental 
development and a high spiritual unfold- 
ment steps aside and allows his mind and 
body to be controlled by an ignorant spirit 
of a much lesser intelligence than himself, 
and who has to be educated before he can 
speak the English language correctly. 

It would seem more in harmony with 
God's Divine plan of life for that individual 
to develop his own body, mind, and soul 
into a higher consciousness, so that he might 
be able to co-operate with the spirit world 
and become a medium through the exercising 
of his own will and mental and spiritual 
powers. 

X-ray is that spiritual vision which comes 
to our consciousness when our eye becomes 
single, and we are able to see truth only. 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 265 

When the A:-power is reached, the new Ufe 
begins, and we begin to worship God and to 
serve the purpose for which mankind was 
designed, and the soul-power begins to be 
able to hear the voice of wisdom, which 
praises God and recognizes Him in all things, 
and the consciousness begins to realize and 
understand that there is but one God, at 
whose feet we must worship in truth as 
fellow-servants of Jesus Christ. ''And I fell 
at his feet to worship him. And he said unto 
me. See thou do it not: I am thy fellow-servant, 
and of thy brethren that have the testimony of 
Jesus: worship God, for the testimony of Jesus 
is the spirit of prophecy.'' 



Youth is removing the yoke from yourself 
and returning to your first estate. Youth 
does not doubt, but is filled with trust, hope, 
and expectation. Thomas was the doubting 
disciple, and, so far as Bible history goes, we 
have never heard of his having accomplished 
very much that has benefited the world oth- 
er than to satisfy his own doubting. 



266 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

Salvation cannot be found in a seance- 
room; but righteous concentration, medita- 
tion, thought, and regeneration will return 
us to our first estate of spiritual unfoldment. 
Then will we come into command of the 
senses of the soul, which are in constant com- 
munion with the saints; and as we reign 
upon the throne of self-control and illumina- 
tion, we will come under the guidance and 
command of our own soul, never having wor- 
shiped the image of the beast or received 
his mark. 

Those who depend only upon the m ani- 
festation of phenomena will not be able to 
overcome the second death, while those who 
shall have put away the desire for material 
things shall continue in youth and perfection 
to worship God, and shall be judged by the 
service they have rendered to their fellow- 
men. 



Zeal is the zest of Zion and the zone of 
zenith. When we have reached our zenith, 
we can see a new Heaven and a new earth, 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 267 

and realize that there is no death, and that 
to sit upon the throne in your own soul is 
the Alpha and Omega of all things, which 
brings that spiritual understanding and reali- 
zation of the allness of God, and that all 
things are possible to those who are obedient 
to His will. 

And it is reasonable to believe that those 
things which bring us happiness, prosperity, 
health, and wisdom in this life will bring us 
eternal perfection, that we may live and 
enjoy the service which we can render unto 
our Creator and our fellow-men in an eternal 
and continuous life, forever resting in the 
consciousness that all things are possible 
with God. 

Having this knowledge, it follows that 
the foundation of individual growth depends : 
first, on cleansing the physical body in every 
detail, wearing clean clothes, and eating pure 
food; second, in cleansing the mind by train- 
ing one's self to think pure thoughts, and 
carry a cheerful attitude, and consider the 
rights of others, realizing that when we re- 



268 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 

strict the liberty or independence of any- 
body, we at the same time restrict our own 
liberty in the same degree; third, in arousing 
the soul to claim its inheritance — knowl- 
edge and understanding; fourth, in develop- 
ing that consciousness wherein we realize 
that it is ignorance that violates the funda- 
mental laws of life. 

When your own soul is awakened, you be- 
come a spiritual being in harmony with 
knowledge, truth, and wisdom, and do not 
need a spirit guide to assist you to commune 
with the spiritual world, because your spirit 
has all the powers that any spirit could have 
who might come and take possession of your 
body. Then wiU the angels of light come 
and talk with you and take you away in the 
spirit into the mountain of truth to worship 
in the glory of God, and behold the beautiful 
city of gold, which lays four-square, and 
which is beautified by the glory of purity, 
and wherein nothing shall enter that may 
defile, and where the river of life flows by 
the throne of God, whose banks bear the 



SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 269 

fruit that feed and clothe and heal the na- 
tions, and where you can serve and worship 
with pure understanding in truth, desiring 
only to serve one God, and to live, love, and 
rejoice in His Life, Love, Light, and Law 
forever. 



